...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
blames on the People’s Protection Units (YPG).
An explosion from an IED planted in a car killed three people including a child in the center of Afrin city, the Kurdish led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) affiliated North Press Agency reported on Saturday.
The
"The terrorist organization PKK/YPG has added yet another kaboom on innocent civilians in Afrin. The terrorists, who detonated a vehicle on the road used by civilians, killed 3 innocent civilians and injured 3 other civilians," the
Ankara considers the YPG to be the Syrian extension of the PKK, seen as a terrorist group in Turkey, and used this as a pretext for the nation’s invasion into Rojava.
The YPG, although ideologically inspired by PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan, denies any links to the PKK.
Turkey and its Syrian proxies invaded Afrin in March 2018, forcing hundreds of thousands of people — mostly Kurds — to flee to other areas controlled by the YPG, especially Shahba, north of Aleppo.
The YPG and other armed Kurdish groups affiliated with it have fought the
Turkey has conducted three military campaigns in northern Syria in the past several years, backing Syrian militia groups, and now controls Afrin, areas north of Aleppo, and pockets of territory within Rojava in the northeast.
Earlier this month,
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...blamed the YPG for an attack on Shifa Hospital in Afrin, where 21 people were killed, 17 of which were civilians including children, and 23 others were maimed.
However the Kurdish force denied the accusations and condemned the attack.
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