18 minutes agoAfrican Kurds demand Syria to protect from Turkey
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Kurdish authorities in the northern enclave of Africa, Syria, have called on Syrian troops to defend the region's border, as Turkish offensive continues to operate there. They said the “objective of this aggression on the part of Turkey is to cut off Syrian soil, occupying Africa”. Turkey-led forces launched attacks [...]
They said the “objective of this aggression on the part of Turkey is to cut off Syrian soil, occupying Africa”.
Turkey-led forces launched their attacks on northwest Syria on Saturday. Ankara considers Kurdish fighters the YPG in Africa as terrorists and says they are linked to Kurdish PKK guerrillas operating in Turkey.
48 rebels supported by Turkey and 42 YPG fighters have been killed during the fighting since Saturday, says the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group in the United Kingdom.
