(Beirut) Kurdish-led forces in Syria have accused the Turkish army of carrying out several aerial bombardments against the northern Syrian city of Kobani on Saturday night, days after Ankara designated the Kurdish movement of PKK responsible for an attack which bloodied Istanbul. 12 pro-regime soldiers and Kurdish-led forces were killed, reports the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH).
“Kobane, the city that defeated the Islamic State group, is the target of bombardments by the air force of the Turkish occupation,” announced Farhad Shami, a spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF, an armed coalition dominated by the Syrians). Kurds), who had denied any link with the attack.
Mr. Shami also reported strikes against two densely populated villages in the north of the provinces of Aleppo (north) and that of Hassaké (north-east).
More than 20 strikes were carried out by the Turkish army in the two provinces according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), an NGO based in London and which has an extensive network of sources in Syria, without be able to provide an assessment of losses and damages.
These raids are carried out a few days after the SDF, supported by Washington, denied any link with the Istanbul attack of November 13, which left six dead and 81 injured.
Turkish authorities accuse a young woman of Syrian nationality of having planted the bomb, which exploded in the main shopping street of Istiklal, in the center of Istanbul.
The Turkish Minister of the Interior had affirmed that “the order for the attack was given from Kobané”, a city controlled by Kurdish forces.