Türkiye escalates its retaliatory strikes against the SDF in northern and eastern Syria
Turkish forces escalated their strikes with ammunition marches on areas controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), as part of a response to the killing of 12 of its soldiers and the wounding of 13 others in attacks by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party in northern Iraq.
On Monday, the Turkish strikes targeted, for the second time, a site in the Alaya neighborhood, the Al-Shamal Company in the vicinity of the silos in the Suez Canal neighborhood, the cement factory on the eastern belt, and a mill in the east of the city of Qamishli in Al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that, in conjunction with the bombing, hospitals in Qamishli sent calls to families to donate blood. The Observatory counted the killing of 6 people and the injury of 2 others, as a result of an aerial attack on a Turkish march on a military site in the village of Tal Habash, south of Amuda in the Qamishli countryside.
The planes also targeted a military point belonging to the SDF in the town of Al-Jawadiya (Jal Agha) in the Qamishli countryside.
Turkish Defense Minister Yaşar Guler addresses the pilots who destroyed Kurdish militant sites in Iraq and Syria (Ministry of Defense)
The village of Tawila in the Tal Tamr countryside, northwest of Hasakah, was also bombed. On Monday, the number of Turkish strikes reached 9, leaving 8 dead and 5 injured.
On Monday, the Turkish Ministry of Defense announced the neutralization of 26 terrorists from the PKK organization in northern Syria and Iraq. The ministry’s statement stated that air operations were carried out on Saturday against targets of the PKK terrorist organization in northern Syria and Iraq.
He stated that the operations resulted in the neutralization of 26 terrorists, and that they are still continuing. The Turkish army is launching operations against terrorist nests in northern Iraq and Syria after 12 soldiers were killed and 13 others were injured on Saturday and Sunday.
A Turkish march targeted a military point belonging to the Syrian Democratic Forces, in the town of Al-Jawadiya (Jal Agha) in the Qamishli countryside, north of Al-Hasakah, without any information being received about human casualties. This coincided with a Turkish march targeting another location in the village of Tal Habash, south of the city.
Turkish forces bombed the city of Ain al-Arab (Kobani), east of Aleppo Governorate, carrying out 12 strikes, resulting in a number of wounded.
Turkish forces and factions of the so-called “Syrian National Army” loyal to Ankara also bombed, with heavy artillery and mortar shells, the village of Abyan-Binah in the Shirawa district of the Afrin countryside, within the areas where the SDF forces and the Syrian army are deployed, resulting in casualties.
Declining numbers of refugees
On the other hand, new statistics from the Turkish Immigration Department revealed a decrease in the number of Syrian refugees in Turkey since the beginning of this year, by about 10 percent, in light of a declared policy by the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to reduce the number of refugees and return more than a million of them to northern Syria voluntarily. .
According to statistics, the number of Syrian refugees obtaining a temporary protection card (Kimlik) decreased to 3 million, 226,141 people, after the number was 3 million, 535,898 refugees at the end of 2022.
The arrival of 89 Syrian refugees from Turkey to Torrejon Military Airport in Madrid last March as part of resettlement under the supervision of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (official website)
The number of Syrian refugees receiving temporary protection in Turkey decreased by more than 309,000 refugees, or about 10 percent, during the current year. The Turkish Immigration Department said that the number of Syrian refugees in Turkey is now the lowest in 7 years.
In the same context, the number of Syrian refugees resettled in third countries between 2016 and 2023 reached 63,213 Syrians.
The Turkish Minister of the Interior, Ali Yerli Kaya, announced that the total number of Syrian refugees who obtained Turkish citizenship reached 238,55 Syrians as of the beginning of this December.
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2023-12-25 17:28:01
