A vehicle is burning after it was targeted by a Turkish drone in Kobane
Nov 16,
2023. Posted by Balkan Periscope - Hellas
Three
fighters affiliated with the autonomous Syrian Kurdish administration were
killed in a Turkish drone strike near Kobane in northern Syria, a war monitor
reported on Wednesday.
Turkish forces regularly strike targets in the Kurdish administration of northeast Syria (Rojava) on the grounds of having ties with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and posing a threat to its national security.
The PKK is an armed group struggling for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey and designated a terrorist organization by Ankara, who considers Rojava’s People’s Protection Units (YPG), the backbone of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), as the Syrian front for the PKK.
Since early October, Turkey has carried out frequent assaults on Kurdish-led forces and civilian infrastructure in Rojava in retaliation for an attack on the interior ministry in Ankara, for which the PKK claimed responsibility.
According to SOHR, Turkey has carried out 98 drone strikes on Kurdish-controlled areas in Syria since January, killing 82 people and injuring 88 others.
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