প্রকাশ: 20/11/2022
Turkey
launched airstrikes over several towns in northern Syria on Saturday,
U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces reported.
The
airstrikes occurred a week after a bomb rocked a bustling avenue in the heart
of Istanbul, killing six people and wounding over 80 others. Turkish
authorities blamed the attack on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK,
as well as Syrian Kurdish groups affiliated with it. The Kurdish militant
groups have, however, denied involvement.
Ankara and
Washington both consider the PKK a terror group, but disagree on the status of
the Syrian Kurdish groups, which have been allied with the U.S. in the fight
against the Islamic State group in Syria.
Following
the strikes, the Turkish ministry of defense posted a photo of a fighter plane
with the phrase, “The treacherous attacks of the scoundrels are being held to
account."
The
airstrikes targeted Kobani, a strategic town near the Turkish border that
Ankara had previously attempted to overtake in its plans to establish a “safe
zone” along northern Syria. SDF spokesperson Farhad Shami in a tweet added that
two villages heavily populated with displaced people were under Turkish
bombardment. He said the strikes had resulted in “deaths and injuries.”
Syrian
opposition media reported that Turkish airstrikes targeted Kurdish-led Syrian
Democratic Forces positions.
The
Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor,
reported that the strikes had also hit Syrian army positions and that at least
12 had been killed, including both SDF and Syrian army soldiers.
The
observatory said about 25 air strikes were carried out by Turkish warplanes on
sites in the countryside of Aleppo, Raqqa and Hasakah.
The
Kurdish-led authority in northeast Syria said Saturday that if Turkey attacks,
then fighters in the area would have “the right to resist and defend our areas
in a major way that will take the region into a long war.”
Turkey has
launched three major cross-border operations into Syria since 2016 and already
controls some territories in the north.
– AP/UNB
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