Five civilians were killed in a “Turkish drone” strike on their car in northeast Syria, a media outlet and Kurdish forces reported on Saturday, the day after the deaths of two Kurdish journalists in similar circumstances.
Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad on December 8, Ankara has supported an offensive by armed groups against the Kurdish forces who control part of northern Syria.
“Two civilians, a woman and a member of a political party, succumbed to their injuries, bringing to five the number of people killed on Saturday by Turkish drone strikes” near the town of Tal Brak, in the province of Hassaké , declared the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH). A previous report reported three deaths.
“This crime is part of a series of flagrant violations of international law and human rights which prohibit targeting civilians,” the Kurdish Internal Security Forces said in a statement.
Repressed for decades, the Kurds took advantage of the weakening of central power with the war in Syria, which broke out in 2011, to proclaim a “federal region” in the north.
Turkey, which supports the new Syrian power, believes that the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF, dominated by the Kurds), which control the semi-autonomous zones, are an emanation of its sworn enemy, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). , separatist.
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