People of border areas demand Global Coalition & UN for protection
Gre Spi/Tal Abyad – North-Press Agency
Yahya Omar / Fayad Muhammad
The residents of the border town of Tal Abyad/Gre Spi in the Euphrates region (an administrative division comprising Tal Abyad and Kobani districts) on the Syrian-Turkish borders, northern Syria, have called the US-led Global Coalition and the United Nations for protection against the Turkish threats of attacking their region.
On the 15th of the current month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched threats to invade the north and eastern region of Syria, as the Turkish military began to deploy forces on the Syrian-Turkish borders, adjacent to northeastern Syrian territories.
People’s demands
Ibrahim Abdi Muhammad, 40 years old, from the village of Tal Khder, west of Tal Abyad, told North-Press while expressing his fear of a new war: “Turkey Keeps launching threats which in turn raise concern among the people in the border areas.”
Muhammad called for international protection and a safe area under international auspices: “We, the people of the region must protect our regions, we reject the Turkish interference in Syrian territories, neither accept the Free Syrian Army groups that loot the areas they control”.
Omar Rasoul, 50 years old, from the village of Tal Fender, west of Tal Abyad, said that “the Turkish attacks continue, so we cannot cultivate our fields close to the border because the Turkish soldiers keep shooting at us,” pointing out that Turkey “brought significant reinforcements to the borders at night and dug trenches nearby our villages.”
Rasoul said that they are ready to defend themselves and they “will not accept the Turkish army, which brings along the Free Syrian Army,” noting that they have seen “massacres and looting operations by Free Syrian Army in Afrin”.
It’s worth mentioning that there is a US observation post in the village of Tal Fender, about 10 km west Tal Abyad.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Turkish army fired at a citizen in the village of Gharib, eastern Kobani, the young man was severely injured.
The cities and towns of northeastern Syria have recently witnessed large gatherings of protestors, where people stood as human shields on the borders, following the Turkish threats to invade the north and eastern Syria region.