Zemmour participated in a radio show on RTL and said: “Two days. There were only two days before the celebration of the new year. Two days before Newroz. The Kurds in Afrin will not be celebrating anything, they are busy fleeing and hiding.”

Zemmour said Kurds have been “smothered” under Turkish bombs for weeks and called the invasion in Afrin a “horrific defeat” and “a great revenge for ISIS”.

“This is a good revenge for Turks who have been supporting ISIS for a long time,” said Zemmour and continued: “A high ranking Turk was making fun, saying ‘Where are these best fighters against ISIS that the Western allies boast so much?’ But the question is asked in the wrong way: Where are the Westerners while their allies against ISIS the Kurds are being massacred?”

Zemmour said the Kurds are too dispersed to be strong and have too little unity to be taken into account: “Because they were loyal to their Western allies, Vladimir Putin threw them to the dogs.”

Zemmour concluded with: “Because they are dreaming of a Kurdistan that will bring Kurds in Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran together. It has been put down by all the current states.”