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Aleppo. After the Istanbul bombing incident, Turkey has bombed several Kurdish towns in northern Syria. It has been said in the news that Turkish airstrikes have been reported on several cities, including Kobane, occupied by Kurdish militias. Kurdish-led forces and a Britain-based monitoring group said Turkey carried out airstrikes late Saturday on several Kurdish towns in northern Syria, including the city of Kobane.
The attacks come days after Turkey blamed the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) for last Sunday’s deadly bombings in Istanbul. Farhad Shami, a spokesman for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), tweeted that Turkish planes were indiscriminately bombing the city of Kobane, which had defeated ISIS. Turkey views the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), the main component of the SDF, as an extension of the banned PKK.
Shami said that Turkish airstrikes were also carried out on two densely populated villages in the northern province of Aleppo and the northeastern province of Hasakeh. While the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the Turkish army carried out more than 20 airstrikes in both provinces. The group has a large network of contacts across Syria.
Kobane, a Kurdish-majority city in northern Syria near the Turkish border, was captured by the Islamic State group in late 2014. However, Kurdish fighters drove them out early the following year. Both the PKK and the YPG have denied any involvement in the Istanbul attack, which killed six people. But Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu has said that Ankara believes that the attack was ordered from Kobane itself.
