The Turkish power targets the forces of the Kurdistan workers’ party, which he accuses of having perpetrated the attack on November 13.
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Thousands of Syrian Kurds demonstrated Sunday November 27 in Kamechliyé, northeast of Syria, to protest against the recent Turkish air strikes targeting this region controlled by the Kurdish semi-autonomous administration, reported a photographer from the France-Presse agency (AFP).
Ankara has been carrying out an aerial operation called “sword claw” against Kurdish forces in Syria and the Kurdistan forces, the PKK, in Iraq, accused by the Turkish authorities of having perpetrated the attack of 13 November in Istanbul, who killed six people. Kurdish forces have denied any involvement.
After a three -day lull, Turkey led new air raids early Sunday against areas controlled by Kurds north of Aleppo, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), based in United Kingdom and which has a large network of sources in Syria.
Five Syrian soldiers were killed by a Turkish drone shot in a village near the city of Tall Rifaat, north of Aleppo, said the OSDH, which reported an exchange of fire Artillery between the Kurdish forces and the Turkish forces helped by the Syrian factions which are faithful to them in the region.
Since November 20, at least 64 people have been killed in Turkish attacks, which mainly focused in northeast Syria: 35 fighters among the Syrian democratic forces (mainly Kurdish) and their allies, 28 Members of the Syrian regime forces, as well as a journalist working for a Kurdish news agency, according to the OSDH. Most of them fell on the first day of the raids.
“until when are we going to die?”
Sunday, in the city of Kamechliyé, in the Hassaké region, thousands of demonstrators denounced Turkey’s attacks as well as the threats of an earth offensive that it makes. The protesters brandished the Kurdish, yellow and green Kurdish flag and portraits of Abdullah Öcalan, the historic chief of the PKK, imprisoned in Turkey, launching slogans hostile to the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
“The will of the Kurdish people will not be broken (…), we will not leave our historic land,” Sham Sleimane, a 49 -year -old demonstrator, told AFP. “We are victims of an eradication,” said another protester, Salah El-Dine Hamou, 55. Until when are we going to die while the rest of the world looks at us? “
Supported by the international coalition led by the United States, the Syrian Kurdish forces had been the spearhead of the fight against the Islamic State organization, chased from its fiefs in Syria in 2019. Between 2016 and 2019, the Turkey has carried out three major operations in northern Syria against Kurdish militias and organizations. Ankara repeats wanting to create a 30 -kilometer “safety zone” along its southern border.