Turkish escalation in NE Syria increases terrorist acts
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – Terrorist activities in Syria’s northeast increase whenever Turkey intensifies its attacks in the region, human rights activists said Tuesday.
“The Turkish escalation against areas of northeast Syria coincides with increasing destabilizing activities,” Ammash al-Hussein, member of public monitoring commissions in Deir ez-Zor Civil Council, said.
“The Turkish government is following “the new cold war” mechanism through using drones hitting goals throughout northeast Syria,” he told North Press.
The recent Turkish escalation against the northeastern Syrian, which has claimed civil victims and damaged houses and shops, sparks official and public condemnation.
As for the head of Law Office in the Deir ez-Zor Civil Council, Thaer al-Keraid, he said that the systematic Turkish escalation contributed to undermining security in the region and increasing subversive activities in favor of foreign agendas that lead to chaotic situation.
Al-Keraid also condemned dubious international silence that accompanied the escalation which disregarded for innocents’ lives in the region.
Speaking of the Turkish escalation and the use of drones in shelling civilians, Tareq al-Mustafa, a lawyer and human right activist in Deir ez-Zor, said that it indicated an international green light over the policy Turkey has adopted in Syria.
He told North Press that going ahead carrying out such practices would cause a long-term instability crisis.
He suggested that there may be an implied agreement that allowed Turkey to launch the undeclared indirect escalation for political calculations of the actors in the Syrian issue.
Also he warned against the impacts of this on security in the country.
“The Turkish escalation coincides with increasing terrorist attacks that adversely affected efforts towards stability and the hoped-for political solution as well as the civil efforts towards improving the humanitarian condition in Syria in general,” he noted.