Turkey as an occupying power is suspected of stark human rights violations and potential war crimes in swathes of northern Syria. That’s the conclusion of an extensive 74-page report issued by Human Rights Watch (HRW) on February 29. The allegations could prove highly damaging to Ankara—hardly a day goes by without Turkey’s Erdogan administration fiercely denouncing war crimes it says Israel is committing in its conflict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The HRW report — titled Everything is by the Power of the Weapon: Abuses and Impunity in Turkish-Occupied Northern Syria — found that Turkish mil…