The Kurdish Autonomous Administration announced on Monday, January 15 that hundreds of cities in northeastern Syria have been without electricity since Sunday evening following a Turkish strike against power plants. The Kurdish administration, counting six targeted power plants, condemned the attacks “inappropriate” And “Turkish Aggression”.
On Monday evening, the Kurdish administration further claimed that all water pumping stations in the Kamechli region are now closed. “out of order”, after a strike against a power plant. Reporters from Agence France-Presse witnessed the intervention of firefighters at the Camechlie power plant.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in the United Kingdom and with an extensive network of sources in Syria, reported that a seventh power station had been targeted later on Monday.
The head of the Kurdish administration, Yasser Slam, called on the countries of the international coalition led by Russia and the United States. “To end Turkish aggression against our territories and targeting of civilians”.
Ankara, for its part, claimed to have launched strikes against Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq and Syria, after nine Turkish soldiers were killed in an attack on a Turkish military base in northern Iraq on Friday.
The Turkish army claimed to be targeting since Saturday. “According to our rights of self-defense”Dozens of targets, incl “Bases, Depots and Gas Plants” Used by People’s Protection Units and Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters.
Turkey, which considers the two armed groups to be terrorists, regularly targets Kurdish fighters in Syria and the rear bases of the PKK in northern Iraq, who have been waging a guerrilla war against the Turkish state since 1984.
