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Turkey continues full-scale offensive to secure border as YPG targets civilians
Source is owned by Erdogan's family... [DAILYSABAH] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's Operation Olive Branch to eliminate PKK-affiliated terrorist threats from Afrin, Syria, successfully left behind its third day yesterday as the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed wing the People's Protection Units (YPG) continued to harass Turkey's border towns with rocket fire, targeting civilians. In addition to reports that the YPG is using civilians as human shields in Afrin against Turkey's offensive, it has also struck the border towns of Hatay and Kilis with several rockets, leaving one dead and causing more than 40 injuries. While performing the mid-afternoon prayer in a mosque, he heard some kind of a large kaboom. "I thought it was doomsday," said a resident of the border town of Reyhanli in the southern Hatay province, as he recounted Sunday's mortar attack by the YPG. The small border district was rattled by the attack. Shattered windows, partly destroyed buildings and damaged cars were still in view yesterday. "Thank God it was on Sunday, otherwise we would surely be dead," said Mustafa, 16, who works in one of the mortar-struck buildings. A civilian died and more than 35 people were maimed in the mortar attack from PYD-controlled areas, according to the Hatay Governorate. The scars of the attack, though, are still fresh. "God willing, the operation will put an end to this violence," Yucel sighed. The terrorist attack against civilians struck while ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA), entered PYD-held areas from the northern, northwestern and western part of the strategic Afrin canton of the terrorist group. Posted by: Fred 2018-01-23 |
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