This week in Northern Syria (IX, part one)

A rundown of key events from Turkish/SNA & SDF-controlled territories

Beginning on August 30th a slew of images and video were published to social media showing extensive deforestation on the shores of Afrin’s Lake Meydankey. This is far from the first time that the issue of uncontrolled logging in Turkish-occupied Afrin has come up, however, given Lake Meydankey’s role as a popular tourist destination the visual evidence…