A post on the Turkish border was hit by rockets fired from Syrian territory on Sunday, injuring at least three members of the security forces, Turkey’s official news agency, Anadolu, revealed.
“A Turkish soldier and two members of the special police forces were injured by rocket fire at a border checkpoint with northern Syria” in southern Turkey, Anadolu reported, blaming the YPG militias, Protection Units of the Syrian People, a movement of Kurdish fighters based in the north. Syria and which has been the target of Turkish airstrikes.
The rockets hit the Bab-al-Hawa post, the last step of international humanitarian aid sent from Turkish territory by the UN to this region of northern Syria, particularly the “pocket” of Idlib, where some live in precarious conditions. three million people. .
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) indicated that at least 31 people, mostly Turkish fighters and Syrian soldiers, were killed during the Turkish shelling launched on Saturday in northern Syria.
Turkey’s Defense Ministry has confirmed airstrikes in northern Syria and Iraq targeting Kurdish groups Ankara believes are responsible for last week’s bomb attack in Istanbul.
Warplanes attacked bases of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Syrian People’s Protection Units (YPG), the ministry said in a statement, which was accompanied by footage of F-16 fighter jets taking off and pictures of an attack A drone.
The ministry cited Turkey’s right to self-defense under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter when it launched an operation it called “Sword-Claw” on Saturday night. The operation targeted areas “used as a base by terrorists in their attacks against our country.”
Syrian Kurdish officials have claimed civilian deaths from the airstrikes.
The airstrikes came after a bomb rocked a busy avenue in the heart of Istanbul on the 13th, killing six people and injuring 80.
Turkish authorities blamed the PKK and its Syrian affiliate for the attack. However, Kurdish militant groups have denied their involvement.
Source: Observadora
