A large portion of the governorate was retaken by government forces during the course of the 2019 offensive, which caused the displacement of nearly a million civilians, and subsequent 2020 offensive, which caused the death of over 1,000 civilians, often in aerial bombardments. As of March 2020 – if not sooner – the rebel control over Idlib Governorate is considered a matter of political survival of the Turkish President Erdoğan. If Idlib would fall back into the hands of the Syrian government, the next victims for the Syrian government would be the other Turkish-controlled zones in northern Syria which would imply the bankruptcy of Erdogan's war against Turkey's enemy the PKK.