First Russian-Turkish joint military patrol in western Kobani

Kobani – North-Press Agency
Fattah Issa – Fayyad Mohamed

The fifth joint Russian-Turkish military patrol in Kobani countryside has ended after wandering for about an hour and a half in the villages of the western countryside of Kobani, north-eastern Aleppo governorate.
This is the first Russian-Turkish joint military patrol in the western countryside of the city of Kobani. The patrol consisted of 4 Turkish military vehicles and a similar number of the Russian vehicles, and set out from the village of Ashma, west of Kobani 20 km, and headed west through the villages of Jareqli, Jebnah, Bayadiya, up to the village of Zor-Maghar, located on the eastern bank, adjacent to the town of Jarablus.

The joint military patrol returned immediately after its arrival to the village of Zor-Maghar towards the east, where it passed through the villages of Bayadiya, Jebnah, Jareqli, Qiran, Dikemdash, Salib-Qiran, Boban, Siftek), all the way to the checkpoint of the Internal Security Forces (Asayish), near the Broadcast Center, west of Kobani.
As the patrol went back to the starting point in the village of Ashma, after wandering in about ten villages for about an hour and a half, according to the bilateral agreement between Moscow and Ankara on October 22.

The fourth Russian-Turkish joint patrol in the countryside of Kobani was conducted on the third of December, starting from the village of Gharib, east of Kobani, accompanied by two Russian helicopters. while the previous patrols witnessed widespread popular disapproval in the villages of the eastern countryside of Kobani, where the Turkish military vehicles were thrown at by stones and shoes, amid attempts to prevent the completion of their route, in refusal of their presence and in response to the Turkish military invasion in north-eastern Syria.