Turkey targets infrastructure to displace residents of Syria’s northeast
AIN ISSA, Syria (North Press) – Turkey aims through its aggressions to destroy the infrastructure to empty the area of its residents, an official in Tel Abyad region, north of Raqqa, northern Syria, said on Thursday.
In the recent Turkish attacks a civilian lost his life and 11 others were injured including children and women, in Kobani countryside, northeast Syria.
The bombardment also caused a large wave of displacement in the targeted villages.
Yesterday, the Turkish forces and the affiliated opposition factions bombed the water station in the town of al-Hesha, 50 km east the town of Ain Issa in Raqqa northern countryside, northern Syria, with heavy guns, leading to water cut off to the town as well as 50 other villages.
Since the invasion of the cities of Tel Abyad and Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) in 2019, the Turkish forces have followed the policy of displacing the population, Hamid al-Abd, co-chair of the Tel Abyad Council, said.
Turkey and the factions affiliated to it, are constantly focusing on targeting infrastructure to force residents to leave their homes and properties, al-Abd added.
Last week, the Turkish shelling of the northern countryside of Hasakah led to a new wave of displacement with more than 100 families resorting to Sere Kaniye Camp, on the outskirts of Hasakah, and Newroz Camp in Derik city, northeast Syria, because their houses were devastated in the shelling.
The direct Turkish bombardment of the countryside of Tel Abyad and the town of Ain Issa and its countryside caused a state of panic among the residents.
The Turkish forces and the Turkish-backed factions are displacing the indigenous population, to be replaced by the displaced from the other Syrian regions.
He believes that the Turkish authorities are working to direct the attention of the Turkish street abroad to ignore the domestic crisis that it is witnessing.
All the projects Turkey carried out have failed. Now, it has started another kind of war namely “targeting the infrastructure” aiming to force the people to displace leaving behind their villages empty, al-Abd noted.
He called the international community to break their silence and speak against the brutality of the Turkish regime since all of the affected people are vulnerable civilians, including children and women.
Areas in the northwestern countryside of Raqqa and northern countryside of Hasakah are under continuous bombardment by Turkish forces and their affiliated Syrian armed opposition factions since their military action in 2019 which claimed lives of civilian casualties.