Turkey bombs the Kurds in Syria: there are at least 29 dead

A series of bombardments perpetrated last night by the aviation of Turkey against various points in the north of Syria They caused the death of 29 people, eleven of them civilians, reported this Sunday the Democratic Syrian Forces (FSD), an armed alliance led by Kurds.

According to the account offered by the Kurdish spokesman Farhad Shami on his Twitter account, eleven of the fatalities are civilians and another 15 belong to the ranks of the Syrian government forceswhile the FSD they suffered one casualty and two security guards died while guarding some silos.

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Shortly before midnight, Turkey shelled several areas in the Syrian provinces of Aleppo, Raqqa and Al Hasakaattacking mainly points controlled by the Kurdish Syrians, who maintain a self-proclaimed autonomous administration in the northeast of the Arab country.

Airstrikes also hit some Damascus troop positions.

The FSD They specified in a statement that the eleven civilians died in the same incident in the town of derikwhere a group of residents and health workers had gathered to attend to the victim of a first bombardment, when they were surprised by a new launch.

According to the note, the shelling continued intermittently until this morning.

“The Turkish state has long been preparing to launch large-scale attacks against various regions in northern and eastern Syria.. After inventing the conspiracy about the explosion in Istanbul, he used it as a pretext to threaten our regions ”denounced the armed alliance.

The bombings occurred after Ankara pointed to a Syrian woman as the main suspect in the attack that a week ago caused six deaths and 81 injuries in Istanbul.and ensure that she had been trained by the People’s Protection Units (YPG)one of the main components of the FSD.

Ankara believes that the YPG and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)the Kurdish guerrilla Turkeyare regional branches of the same organization and therefore consider both to be terrorist organizations.

Syrian Kurdish forces denied any link to the Istanbul explosion and accused Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoganto find an excuse to attack northern Syria in order to win support for the elections to be held in their country next year.

Although this is not the first “air operation” launched by Turkey against Kurdish targets in Syria in recent months, the bombings and the context in which they are framed have raised fears of a large-scale cross-border offensive with which Erdogan has been threatening. since before the summer.

Source: Elcomercio

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