Turkey had announced on Saturday that it would proceed with an air operation “against terrorist targets in northern Syria and Iraq” in retaliation for the death of 12 of its soldiers in northern Iraq, where it has military bases.
Eight civilians were killed today in shelling by the Turkish armed forces in Kurdish-controlled northeast Syria, local Kurdish Syrian forces and the non-governmental Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Turkey had announced on Saturday that it would proceed with an air operation “against terrorist targets in northern Syria and Iraq” in retaliation for the death of 12 of its soldiers in northern Iraq, where it has military bases.
The Kurds of Syria, after the civil war that broke out in 2011 in their country, formed an autonomous administration in the zones they control, in the north and the east. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-dominated coalition, are US allies and control these areas. However, Turkey considers their main component, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), a “terrorist organization” and an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party.
Today’s bombings targeted infrastructure of the autonomous Kurdish administration. According to the Observatory, eight civilians were killed, five of them at a printing plant in the town of Qamisli, near the border with Turkey. The Observatory and AFP correspondents in the region said the Turkish air force carried out more than 20 strikes, particularly in and around Qamisli.
The SDF confirmed the death toll of eight, noting that “more than 25 civilian installations” were targeted.
Source :Skai
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