Turkey escalates bombing Syria’s Hasakah northern countryside
TEL TAMR, Syria (North Press) – Over the last week of June, the Turkish forces have escalated their bombardment of villages in the north of Hasakah, northeast Syria. Turkish forces and their affiliated opposition SNA factions escalated their violations against the residents of the areas under their control.
In the late hours of the night of last Saturday of this month, the Turkish forces bombed the inhabited village of Tawila, west of the town of Tel Tamr, with heavy weapons, causing material damage.
Two days later, a Turkish drone targeted the village of Tel al-Laban, west of the town of Tel Tamr, wounding a person..
On June 27, shop owners in the city of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain), which is under the control of the Turkish forces and the SNA, went on strike after the Hamzat faction robbed a civilian’s food store.
A day later, the wife of the brother of the head of the Tel Abyad Local Council, which is affiliated with Turkey, was insulted by a Turkish soldier, local sources told North Press.
The assault took place in the village of Khirbet al-Buz in Tel Abyad countryside, after a Turkish patrol along with Turkish-backed Civil Police raided the house of a civilian under the pretext of his cooperation with the government forces, the source added.
Following the incident, a Turkish official called Saleh Abdullah, the head of the Tel Abyad Civil Council, reprimanded him and threatened to hand over the wanted persons within 24 hours. Abdullah handed over nine people from his village, including his nephew, to the Turkish forces, according to the source.
On June 29, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced the killing of one member and wounding another of the SNA following clashes in the village of Kor Hasan in the western countryside of Tel Abyad, while trying to carry out an infiltration operation.
Following the Turkish “Peace Spring” military operation in October 2019, which resulted in the occupation of the two cities of Tel Abyad, north of Raqqa, and Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain), north of Hasakah, Turkey signed two ceasefire agreements, one with Russia and the other with the US.
The agreements stipulate halt of all hostilities there and the withdrawal of the SDF 30 km in depth away from the Turkish border in addition to conducting Turkish-Russian joint patrols in order to monitor the implementation of the agreements.
On May 23 , Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara would soon launch new military operations along its southern borders to create 30-km deep safe zones.