Turkish shelling puts power station out of service in Syria’s Hasakah
TEL TAMR, Syria (North Press) – Turkish shelling on the town of Tel Tamr in the northern countryside of Hasakah, northeast Syria, on Friday put a power station out of service.
Fahd Sam’ila, director of Electricity Department, affiliated with the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), in Tel Tamr said the Turkish shelling caused significant damage to the power station of the town, putting it out of service.
He told North Press that Tel Tamr and the villages surrounding have been deprived of electricity. “We are waiting for the Russian forces to coordinate with the Turks to be able to access the station and repair the breakdown,” Sam’ila said.
The station is located on the contact line between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Turkish forces along with their affiliated armed opposition factions, aka the Syrian National Army (SNA). There is also a headquarters of the Russian forces that came to the area as a mediator following the Turkish invasion of the area in October 2019.
Tel Tamr, which has a population of about 25,000 and is 30 km away from the Syrian-Turkish border, is of strategic importance as it is a junction on the M4 Highway linking Hasakah to Aleppo in the northwest. The town is constantly subjected to attacks by the Turkish forces and their affiliated SNA factions that led to power and water outage.