YPG/PKK terror attacks kill six civilians in Syria

Six civilians were killed and 15 injured by terrorist YPG/PKK artillery fire and heat seeking missiles in residential areas in northern Syria, once occupied by Daesh terrorists — now cleared by Turkey’s anti-terror Operation Euphrates Shield.

Terrorists targeted the Gandura neighborhood of the Jarabulus district, held by Syrian armed opposition.

Six civilians were killed in the attack, with 13 injured.

Turkey remands four trying to recruit children for PKK

Four people have been remanded in custody after trying to kidnap two children to recruit them for the PKK terror group, police said on Wednesday.The four suspects were caught on Friday following a technical and physical surveillance, said a police statement, adding that they were remanded into custody after being referred to a local court.Video: Operation Peace Spring in northern SyriaA large number of digital materials and documents related to the terror group were seized at the addresses raided to arrest the suspects.The children were delivered to their families, police said.In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK — listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the European Union — has been responsible for deaths of 40,000 people, including women, children and infants.PKK continues to be Europe’s favorite terror groupWest holds onto lies it crafted about YPG

Turkey’s anti-terror operation rightful: Experts

Pakistani security and political experts said Turkey’s counter-terrorism operation in northern Syria would ensure durable regional peace and security.”Turkey’s operation to secure its borders is justified. Like any other sovereign country, Ankara is within its right to secure its people and borders,” Ikram Sehgal, a Karachi-based defense and security analyst, told Anadolu Agency.”No sovereign country can allow terrorists to operate on its borders, and pose a permanent threat to its security,” he said.Video: Orthodox Jews in US support Turkish Peace Spring OperationTurkey launched Operation Peace Spring on Oct. 9 to eliminate terrorists from northern Syria in order to secure Turkey’s borders, aid in the safe return of Syrian refugees, and ensure Syria’s territorial integrity.Ankara wants to clear northern Syria east of the Euphrates River of the terrorist PKK and its Syrian offshoot, the PYD/YPG.Turkey has said the PKK terrorist group and its extension the YPG/PYD constitute the biggest threat to Syria’s future, jeopardizing the country’s territorial integrity and unitary structure.Ankara has also stressed that supporting terrorists under the pretext of fighting Daesh is unacceptable.Turkey remands four trying to recruit children for PKKIn its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK — listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S., and the European Union — has been responsible for deaths of 40,000 people, including women, children, and infants.Terming the refugee influx into Turkey and subsequently to Europe due to terrorists’ presence in broad swathes of northern Syria, Sehgal said that a successful operation in the region would pave the way for safe and early repatriation of over 1.5 million refugees to their homes.”It [elimination of terrorists] will ultimately benefit the whole region, including Syria, Turkey and Europe,” he added.US has to work with Turkey on their terms, says expertHailing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s assurance that the territorial sovereignty of Syria will be fully respected, Sehgal said he hoped that the Operation Peace Spring would be culminated as soon as possible achieving the desired results.Retired Brig. Said Nazir Mohammad, an Islamabad-based defense analyst, voiced a similar view.”Turkey is facing the brunt of refugees as the EU is not accepting them,” Nazir noted adding that Ankara has been facing a threat from PKK, that’s why it wants to create a safe zone along with its border to ensure the safe return of refugees.YPG/PKK terror attacks kill six civilians in SyriaThe safe zone near Turkey border, he said, was actually created by the UN, but was being challenged by Daesh, Syrian Army, al-Qaeda affiliates and a moderate Kurd opposition.”Since YPG is a terrorist outfit and being supported by the U.S and Israel, Turkey is worried of the Balkanization of Syria with a Kurd state to be carved out along eastern and southeastern borders,” he said suggesting that Pakistan should operate in a gray area of diplomacy and for a peaceful settlement with an aim to respect the territorial integrity of all states.”The Turkish operation blatantly exposes U.S. hypocrisy where it was allied with the YPG,” said Arhama Siddiqa, a research fellow covering the Middle East at Islamabad-based Institute of Strategic Studies.PKK continues to be Europe’s favorite terror groupShe added that the Turkish Operation Peace Spring exposed the ”faultiness between President [Donald] Trump and Pentagon where they keep contradicting each other.””We saw this in the Qatar-Gulf crisis as well,” she said.Syed Fakhar Kakakhel, another Islamabad-based political analyst, said: ”It is obvious that Turkey is the one, which is close to the war theater and the most affected by terror attacks.””Turkey knows much better than the rest of the world how to deal with Syrian crisis,” Kakakhel told Anadolu Agency adding that Pakistan itself has faced the brunt of Afghan war for decades.In that perspective, he said, Ankara had every right to move for its own and the region’s security and stability.’Turkey’s Syria operation is clearing away terrorists’EU not planning economic sanctions on Turkey: Berlin

The YPG/PKK terrorists also attacked Azaz district, firing four artillery shells which wounded two additional civilians.

On Monday, the terror organization injured three children in a separate attack on Jarabulus, located in the Operation Euphrates Shield zone.

Operation Euphrates Shield and its successors, Operation Olive Branch in 2018 and Operation Peace Spring — launched on Oct. 9 — all aim to eliminate terrorist elements near Turkey’s borders, including Daesh and the YPG/PKK.

US has to work with Turkey on their terms, says expert

The United States has to work with Turkey on their terms in northern Syria, a senior Hudson Institute fellow said Tuesday.Speaking at a panel, Michael Doran said Washington, by allying with the PKK terror organization, set itself on a collusion course with Ankara, calling it “unwise.””Everyone knows we [the U.S.] are leaving sooner or later. Turkey is gonna be there forever. We have to work through them largely on their terms,” said Doran.Video: Operation Peace Spring in northern Syria”We can have our humanitarian concerns, we can force them aggressively, we can have differences of opinions but it has to be within a Turkish framework rather than some framework we made up as a result of different positions we ended up and as a result of temporary tactical decision we made,” he added.His remarks came as Turkey is in seventh day of its peace operation in northeastern Syria. Following Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring, the U.S. sanctioned Ankara’s two of Ankara’s ministries and three ministers on Monday.Doran said the U.S. played a major role in the deterioration of relations with Ankara, adding that “Getting out of it means we need to reestablish good ties with Ankara.”Turkey remands four trying to recruit children for PKKTurkey’s anti-terror operation rightful: ExpertsTurkey has repeatedly told the U.S. that its support for the PYD-YPG, the Syrian offshoot of the PKK, is paving the way for the group to build a terror state in northeastern Syria.”We rebranded the PKK as the SDF, and brought in Arab and Ezidis. But the power center of that organization always was the PKK. We should recognize that we lied to ourselves.”[The] Obama administration packaged this as something other than PKK,” he added.Doran also said the U.S. is ditching a major ally, that sits between Europe and Asia, and where U.S. has basis and intelligence platforms and called Turkey an ally the U.S. work in Bosnia and Afghanistan.”We are gonna ditch that state [Turkey] for a splinter group, extremist terrorist organization. That does not even represent even Kurds. PKK is not Kurds,” he added, referring to the PKK.US has to work with Turkey on their terms, says expertYPG/PKK terror attacks kill six civilians in Syria”We elevated a little splinter extremist organization of a minority and put it on the same level as our ally and began mediating back and forth and representing to Turkey the position of the PKK,” he said.He said the PKK/YPG rejected any power sharing in their area and hate even the Kurdish Regional Government in northern Iraq. “These guys the YPG, they would rather be in bed with [Bashar] al-Assad and the Iranians than with Kurds of Iraq.”Doran accused the terror group of aligning itself with the Russians and Iranians, soon after the Washington’s withdrawal in the region.”We borrowed a Russian and Iranian proxy, and it was strategically stupid,” he added.PKK continues to be Europe’s favorite terror group’Turkey’s Syria operation is clearing away terrorists’Turkey on Oct. 9, launched Operation Peace Spring to eliminate terrorists from northern Syria in order to secure Turkey’s borders, aid in the safe return of Syrian refugees, and ensure Syria’s territorial integrity.Ankara wants to clear northern Syria east of the Euphrates River of the terrorist PKK and its Syrian offshoot, the PYD/YPG.In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK — listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S., and the European Union — has been responsible for the deaths of 40,000 people, including women, children and infants.EU not planning economic sanctions on Turkey: BerlinWest holds onto lies it crafted about YPG

YPG/PKK terror attacks kill six civilians in Syria

Six civilians were killed and 15 injured by terrorist YPG/PKK artillery fire and heat seeking missiles in residential areas in northern Syria, once occupied by Daesh terrorists — now cleared by Turkey’s anti-terror Operation Euphrates Shield.Terrorists targeted the Gandura neighborhood of the Jarabulus district, held by Syrian armed opposition.Six civilians were killed in the attack, with 13 injured.Turkey remands four trying to recruit children for PKKTurkey’s anti-terror operation rightful: ExpertsThe YPG/PKK terrorists also attacked Azaz district, firing four artillery shells which wounded two additional civilians.On Monday, the terror organization injured three children in a separate attack on Jarabulus, located in the Operation Euphrates Shield zone.Operation Euphrates Shield and its successors, Operation Olive Branch in 2018 and Operation Peace Spring — launched on Oct. 9 — all aim to eliminate terrorist elements near Turkey’s borders, including Daesh and the YPG/PKK.US has to work with Turkey on their terms, says expertYPG/PKK terror attacks kill six civilians in Syria