Residents of Syria’s Raqqa condemn consistent Turkish attacks
RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – Tel Abyad Region Council in the town of Ain Issa, 50 km north of Raqqa Governorate in northern Syria, condemned on Tuesday repeated Turkish attacks on the region.
Tel Abyad has been under the occupation of Turkish forces and their affiliated armed opposition factions since October 2019 following the so-called “Peace Spring” military operation.
The council of Tel Abyad is now operating in Ain Issa town.
The condemnation came in a statement in which it condemned the silence of international community and Russia, as a guarantor of the ceasefire agreement, towards the Turkish attacks, the last of which was a massacre left by a Turkish drone strike in the countryside of the town of Tel Tamr, northeastern Syria.
On August 18, a Turkish drone targeted a UN-affiliated education center on the road connecting the city of Hasakah with the town of Tel Tamr, northeast Syria.
Co-chair of the council, Fadila Muhammad, said, “Turkish violations against residents of northeastern Syria are consistent.”
Muhammad described the Turkish attacks as a “systematic extermination” against the area’s residents that take place under the eye of the world and guarantor states of ceasefire (Russia and the US) without curbing it.
In October 2019, following a Turkish military operation in areas of northeast Syria, the Turkish president signed two ceasefire agreements, one with Russia and the other with the US.
The ceasefire agreements stipulating halt of all hostilities there and the withdrawal of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) 30 kilometers in depth away from the Turkish border in addition to conducting joint patrol with Russia in order to monitor the implementation of the agreements.
The statement called for regional and international humanitarian and human rights parties to immediately intervene to stop the Turkish attacks and take firm and fateful stances.