Turkish shelling causes damages in Syria’s Hasakah, Aleppo
ALEPPO/TEL TAMR, Syria (North Press) – Turkish forces and their affiliated armed opposition factions, also known as Syrian National Army (SNA), targeted on Saturday villages in the northern countryside of Aleppo and others north of Hasakah, northeast Syria, with dozens of artillery shells.
An eyewitness told North Press that Turkish artillery targeted the village of Hasajek in Aleppo northern countryside with two shells.
The shells fell on lands cultivated with olive trees south of the village, damaging dozens of the trees, according to the eyewitness.
An eyewitness from the village of Umm al-Qora, in the northern countryside of Aleppo, said that two shells fell on uncultivated lands on the outskirts of the village.
A military source from north of Hasakah told North Press that the Turkish forces launched similar attack on the village of Umm al-Keif with several shells.
As a result, Tel Tamr power transformer station went out of service. This is the 27th time when the station is harmed due to the Turkish shelling, according to Tel Tamr Power Directorate.
Turkey and its affiliated SNA factions escalate the shelling of villages in Aleppo northern countryside, which is targeted on an almost daily basis, and, also, areas north of Hasakah that witness intermittent Turkish shelling.
The Turkish escalation followed Tehran Summit in which, according to analysts, Turkey failed to obtain a green light from Iran and Russia to launch a military operation against northern Syria.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has recently announced plans to carry out another major military cross-border incursion into northern Syria. Erdogan specified his targets in the two northern Syrian cities of Manbij and Tel Rifaat.
On July 1, Erdogan said that Ankara’s new military operation in northern Syria could begin at any moment.
“The time has come to clear these lands from the terrorist organizations,” Erdogan threatened during Tehran Summit.
Tehran’s trilateral Summit brought presidents of Iran, Russia and Turkey together on July 19 with Syrian issue on the top of its agenda.