Oct 28, 2015, 10:06 AM

Turkey violates Syrian airspace to attack Kurdish militia

Turkey violates Syrian airspace to attack Kurdish militia

ANKARA, Oct. 28 (MNA) – The Turkish air force violated on Tuesday the Syrian airspace to attack the guerrilla of the Union Party and Democracy (PYD) for considering that this last one passed through the red line of security drew by this country in the Euphrates.

The Turkish warplanes carried out two raids against insurgents of the PYD, reported Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, whose government also arrested that day 30 alleged members of the ISIL terrorist movement in the province of Konya.

Damascus accuses Ankara of training and equipping armed formations like the ISIL itself with the view to overthrow the legitimate Syrian president, Bashar Al Assad.

President Vladimir Putin, while announcing the start last September of Russian aviation attacks against the ISIL in Syria, asserted that the Kurdish rebels and the regular army were the ones who really faced the aforementioned terrorist group.

The bombing of the Turkish aviation in the west of the Euphrates River, within Syrian territory, unilaterally seen by Turkey as an alleged red line that the guerrilla could not cross, all without any consent of the Syrian government.

The Kurdish rebel group in Syria evicted the ISIL of the town of Tel Abyad last June and took control of a large strip in the north of the country up to the east of the Euphrates River, highlighted the digital version of the newspaper Hurriyet Daily News.

Davutoglu considered the Turkish military actions justified for which it is considered as the defense of 911 kilometers of border with Syria, where hundreds of armed groups often passed trough to fight the Levantine Army State.

In addition, the Prime Minister announced that in three days the Turkish aircraft attacked 458 guerrilla positions of the Workers Party of Kurdistan (PKK), which since 1984 struggle for the independence of 15 million Kurd in this country.

All this happens after the government was heavily criticized for security holes to prevent a double bombing perpetrated against a pacific march in this capital, in which 102 were killed and 500 wounded.

 

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