Daily Sabah Finds Terrors in Syria, Not Ankara
The Daily Sabah , closely tied to the Turkish government, breathlessly reports how 'Syrian media says YPG opened fire to stop civilians leaving Aleppo.' ( Daily Sabah, Jan 7, 2026 ). What this reporting conveniently omits is Turkey's own documented history of military actions in Syria, frequently targeting Kurdish-held areas and displacing thousands of civilians. Ankara's repeated classification
of the YPG—a key US ally against ISIS—as a 'terrorist group' serves its geopolitical agenda, not an objective assessment of the complex Syrian conflict. One might wonder if the Daily Sabah's editorial microscope ever swivels towards Turkey's own borders, where 'terrorist' designations are generously applied to political dissidents and journalists at home. It’s almost as if 'terrorism' becomes a
flexible label, perfectly elastic for discrediting any group inconvenient to a government's foreign policy goals. When the hand that feeds the narrative is also prosecuting a war, objectivity becomes a casualty.