Syria’s Manbij Civil Administration condemns Turkish attacks on AANES members
MANBIJ, Syria (North Press) – Civil Administration in the city of Manbij, north Syria, condemned on Saturday successive Turkish drone attacks against officials of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES).
Turkey intensified its attacks against the AANES members during September, the last of which was on September 27 in the eastern countryside of Qamishli, northeastern Syria.
Each of Zaynab Sarokhan and Yilmaz Rasho, the co-chairs of the AANES Justice and Reform Office, lost their lives in the Turkish drone strike.
Co-chair of Legislative Council of Manbij Civil Council, Muhammad al-Abo said Turkish state launches drone strikes and targets areas in northeastern Syria after it failed to obtain international green light to initiate its alleged military operation against northern Syria.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced in June 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.
“The successive Turkish attacks in such a way are a malicious way in dealing with people of northeastern Syria,” al-Abo told North Press revealing that this is a new escalation by Turkey.
“It adopted a new approach in targeting and hitting security and stability in north and east Syria, affecting all aspects of life in the region, and this is its goal,” he added.
He went further saying, ” Through drones attacks, it aims at directly hitting the democratic project.”
On September 26, a Turkish drone shelled the AANES building in the city of Kobani, north Syria, causing material damage.
Earlier, Turkish forces and their affiliated armed Syrian opposition factions had increased their shelling of the border areas in the west and east of Kobani.
The AANES was first formed in 2014 in the Kurdish-majority regions of Afrin, Kobani and Jazira in northern Syria following the withdrawal of the government forces. Later, it was expanded to Manbij, Tabqa, Raqqa, Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor after the SDF defeated ISIS militarily there.