Turkey: New round of bombings on Syrian Kurds – US and Russia call for restraint

The “Gampso Xifos” operation is in full swing at Syria with its drones Turkey to launch new rounds of bombing on their territories Kurdsthe moment that USA and Russia they are asking their ally to show “restraint”.

THE Farhad Samia representative of the Syrian Democratic Forces, a coalition dominated by the Kurds, characteristically told AFP about the recent strikes, that “a joint planning and joint operations base with the US against the Islamic State jihadist group was targeted by a Turkish drone».

According to Sami, two Syrian Democratic Forces fighters were killed in the attack and three were wounded. He clarified that the facility targeted was an “operations base” of the international coalition and the Syrian Democratic Forces at a distance of 25 kilometers north of the city of Hasakeh, without specifying its exact location.

“We understand Turkey’s concerns related to its security (…) But at the same time we call on all parties to avoid any initiative that could lead to serious destabilization of the overall situation“, the Kremlin spokesman said Dmitry Peskov.

“Something like that could backfire and to further complicate the situation of security,” added Peskov.

In response, Turkey has demanded that all its allies, led by the US, “stop all support” to YPG fighterswhom he considers terrorists.

“We declare to all our interlocutors, mainly in the United States, that the YPG is identical to the PKK and we strongly express our demand from them to end all support for terrorists“, said the Turkish Defense Minister today Hulusi Akar.

Source: News Beast

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