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2022-04-28 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Nine children killed in Turkish attacks in Rojava in four months: reports
[Rudaw] Nine children in northeast Syria (Rojava) have been killed and many others maimed due to attacks by Ottoman Turkish armed forces since the beginning of the year, according to local media reports published on Wednesday, as The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
continues to intensify its military offenses.

Turkey often targets Rojava, killing and injuring civilians and security forces, and has conducted several military operations in the area since 2016. It claims that the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the backbone of the SDF, is the Syrian offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) — an gang struggling for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey and considered a terrorist organization by Ankara.

A human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
watchdog from Rojava’s Jazira region stated that the attacks are continuing and intensifying as a result of the silence and lack of action on behalf of the international community and rights groups. Human Rights Organization Jazeera, a rights group which calls itself independent and claims to have no political affiliation, also called for international recognition of Ottoman Turkish occupation of Syrian land, and for the country to be held accountable.

"The hostile acts committed by Turkey and its transgression of Syrian land is a clear occupation, which must be recognized internationally and hold it accountable for all the war crimes it committed against the safe Syrian civilians inside their lands," Hawar News Agency (ANHA), a media outlet affiliated with Kurdish authorities in Rojava, cited Aveen Jumaa, head of the rights watchdog as saying.

The outlet also reported that nine children have been killed and 24 others maimed in suspected Ottoman Turkish attacks on the districts of Ain Issa, Zirgan, and Tel Tamer in 2022, also reporting 21 women killed and maimed.

Jumaa added that international committees and rights groups condemn the violations committed in the area, but do not explicitly condemn the Ottoman Turkish state "despite their actual participation in them."

Gire Spi (Tal Abyad) and the neighboring Sari Kani (Ras al-Ain) were controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), until Turkey and its Syrian proxies invaded in October 2019. Both towns were Kurdish-majority, but most people of the ethnicity have fled to other areas under the control of the SDF.

Sari Kani and Gire Spi now lie at opposite ends of a resulting ’buffer zone’ under the control of Ottoman Turkish-backed militias.
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