Turkey bombed communities near the city of Kobani in northern Syria on Saturday night. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and an NGO denounce. Turkey announced on Tuesday it would carry out strikes against targets linked to the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) after the recent attack in Istanbul. Six people were killed and more than eighty injured.
According to the Turkish government, the PKK and the Syrian-Kurdish militant group YPG may be behind the attack in Istanbul. The PKK denies it.
The US-backed SDF reports that two densely populated villages in northern Syria have been hit by shelling. At least six Kurdish SDF fighters were killed, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Six fighters from the regime’s camp in Syria were also killed. Nothing is known yet about the material damage.
Turkey has not yet officially confirmed that it is behind the bombing in Syria. But the Turkish Defense Ministry said in a Twitter message that “the hour of retaliation has come”. That headline was on a photo of a fighter jet taking off. Shortly after, the account also posted a short video of an apparent bombing.
Turkish defense sources tell the press agency Bloomberg which have permission for bombing from Russia, which controls parts of Syrian airspace.
