SDF says Turkey targeted NE Syria 113 times
RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on Saturday that Turkish forces targeted northeastern Syria 113 times, including seven airstrikes.
Turkish forces have intensified their targeting of essential infrastructure and service facilities, including water and electricity stations, oil facilities, and refineries. They heavily utilized warplanes and drones, in addition to heavy weapons, tanks, rockets, and artillery shells, targeting villages and towns inhabited by civilians as well, according to the SDF Media Center.
The Turkish shelling targeted areas such as Qamishli, Manbij, southern Afrin countryside, Shahba, Kobani, Ain Issa, southern Tel Abyad, Tel Tamr, Zarkan, Derik, and Amuda, the media center added.
On Oct. 5, the Turkish army launched drone strikes on infrastructure facilities in several areas of north and northeast Syria that is run by the AANES. The strikes took place following a statement by Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hakan Fidan, in which he threatened to strike a broader range of targets in Syria and Iraq in retaliation for the Ankara attack.
On Oct. 1, two individuals carried out a bomb attack in front of the building of the Ministry of Interior in Turkey’s Ankara injuring two police officers.
On Oct. 4, Fidan claimed that the two attackers had been trained in Syria. “From now on, all infrastructure, large facilities and energy facilities belonging to (armed Kurdish groups) in Iraq and Syria are legitimate targets for our security forces,” he threatened.