Erdogan and the heavy price of the new operation against Syria.
The editor of Rai Al-Iyum newspaper published a note examining the “disastrous results” of Turkey’s new operation against northern Syria and targeting the country’s army headquarters, and wrote that Erdogan made a big mistake.
On Saturday (November 19), the Ministry of Defense of Turkey announced the beginning of its air attack in northern Syria and Iraq by publishing pictures of its fighters, and then it was announced that this action by Turkey was in response to the terrorist explosion that took place in Istanbul on the 13th of this month (November). gave and killed six people; Ankara accused the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) of being involved in the bombing.
Yesterday, in a statement, the anti-terrorism organization in the Kurdistan region of Iraq announced the continuation of the operation of the Turkish army and wrote that the Turkish army on Sunday morning carried out more than 25 airstrikes against the headquarters and bases of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party. PKK) has carried out in the borders of Al-Hasakah, the villages of Aleppo, Raqqa and Kobani in the north of Syria and the Rosettas of Maut city, Mount Qandil, Mount Kortak, Mount Essos and the borders of Broadost region, and these attacks have killed 32 YPG forces and KKK and the wounding of a number of others.
On the other hand, Roudau TV announced on Sunday that in these attacks, at least 15 Syrian soldiers were killed in the areas of Aleppo, Raqqa, and al-Hasakah. Informed sources in northeastern Syria also confirmed the killing of civilians and Syrian soldiers in Turkish attacks on al-Hasakah and Aleppo provinces, and according to al-Mayadeen network, at least nine civilians were killed in the border city of “Al-Malakiyya” alone.
“Abdul Bari Atwan”, the editor of the regional newspaper “Rai Al-Youm”, published a note about the expected “catastrophic” results of these Turkish attacks against 90 targets in northern Syria and Iraq, and targeting the headquarters of the Syrian army, and asked the question: Will carrying out such an operation in the current situation lead to the end of terrorism or will it expand its scope?
