''It is #Afrin that has been a beacon of stability in Syria over the course of the war, not only taking in tens of thousands of #refugees from elsewhere in the country, but establishing the principles of #directdemocracy, women’s #liberation and ecology in the midst of an otherwise catastrophic and tumultuous period. It is precisely this model of a socialistic, multi-ethnic, feminist canton...that Erdogan’s #AKP government sees as ‘terrorism’. The irony could not be more obvious