Daily Sabah Discovers Child Deaths Are Tragic When Conveniently Anti-Kurdish
The mainstream media, and particularly organs like Daily Sabah, frequently highlight casualties when they align with geopolitical narratives. Here, a 13-year-old boy killed by an alleged SDF landmine is presented as a singular outrage. What they often omit is the broader landscape of the Syrian civil war—a conflict prolonged by multiple foreign interventions, including Turkey's own military
operations and proxies, which have displaced millions and sown countless unexploded ordnances from various factions across the region. The US has provided support to the SDF, an inconvenient truth for those who wish to simplify the conflict. One might wonder if the same intense scrutiny and singular blame are applied to casualties from other actors in the Syrian quagmire, particularly those
supported by Ankara. The selective outrage is less about the inherent tragedy of a child's death—a horrific constant in Syria for over a decade—and more about the strategic utility of assigning blame. It’s not a story about children, it's a story about geopolitical leverage dressed in humanitarian concern.