According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), the Turkish army carried out multiple bomb attacks in northern Syria this Saturday (19), which killed at least 12 soldiers among both Kurdish forces and members of pro-regime movements.
The attacks came days after Turkey blamed the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) for the attack that killed six people in Istanbul last Sunday.
The Ministry of National Defense shared on its Twitter account in the early hours of Sunday, “It’s time for reckoning. The scumbags will ask for accountability for their treacherous attacks.” night.
In another Twitter post, he added, “The nests of terror were destroyed by precision strikes,” adding a video showing the crosshairs locking onto a target and exploding shortly after.
Farhad Shami, spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the PKK’s ally in Syria, warned that “Kobane, the city that defeated ISIS, is being bombed by the Turkish occupation air force.”
According to OSDH, Turkish bombings targeted SDF positions in the provinces of Aleppo (north) and Hasakah (northeast) where Kobani is located, its director, Rami Abdel Rahman, told AFP.
Turkey sees the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the main component of the SDF, as an extension of the banned PKK.
Both the PKK and the YPG denied any involvement in the Istanbul bombing.
The Turkish army also bombed the positions of the Syrian regime forces loyal to Bashar Assad in Raqqa and Hasakah.
According to OSDH, the bombings killed six Kurdish SDF members and six regime soldiers in total.
Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu blamed the YPG directly for the attack and said that “he gave the attack order from Kobani”.
This Kurdish-dominated Syrian town near the Turkish border was occupied by the Islamic State extremist group in late 2014. Kurdish fighters expelled the group early the following year.
The US State Department on Friday expressed fear of “possible military action by Turkey” and advised against traveling to northern Syria and Iraq.
source: Noticias
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