Al-Sina’a prison and the Turkish war

As soon as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced their victory over ISIS in Hasakah city, the Turkish warplanes launched airstrikes on the safe areas in Derik in the far northeast Syria. It is not surprising that the Turkish occupation state responded to every defeat of its terrorist organizations at the hands of the SDF with barbaric bombing or invasion of safe areas.

Turkey’s relationship with the terrorist organizations is not new. Most of the terrorist organizations and their leaders such as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Abu Omar al-Turkmani, the leaders of ISIS were killed by American forces in Idlib. Abu Muhammad al-Julani, leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS- formerly al-Nusra Front) and Muhammad al-Jassem, nicknamed Abu Amsha, leader of the Sultan Suleiman Shah faction are in the areas of the Turkish occupation state and under Turkish protection. Despite all international reports confirming Turkey’s relationship with these organizations and its involvement in supporting terrorist operations, the international community intentionally ignores this relationship and has begun to follow the policy of double standards. On the one hand, it praises the role of the SDF in fighting terrorism, and on the other hand it ignores the Turkish terrorist operations against the positions of the SDF and civilian areas.

The bombing by Turkish aircraft is considered one of the largest terrorist operations after the recent Turkish invasion of the areas of Tel Abyad and Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain), where 60 Turkish warplanes participated in this operation and targeted 80 sites in northern Iraq and northeastern Syria, and in safe areas that do not witness any military movements or operations. The Turkish bombing of Ain Diwar and Derik within the AANES areas caused the death of a number of civilians and guards of civil facilities, in addition to the destruction of public infrastructure, including the water dam and the power plant. The US-led Global Coalition, which is present to protect the region, did nothing despite its strained relations with Turkey. Therefore, the SDF leadership accused the coalition of opening the airspace to Turkish planes by bombing areas in Rojava (north and northeast Syria). The coalition’s disregard of the Turkish bombing of the AANES areas could be linked to the Ukrainian crisis and its need for Turkey in Ukraine. Moreover, the Turkish bombing comes out of fear of a rapprochement between the AANES and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which would serve the intra-Kurdish dialogue. As for the Russian silence, it is not new. The Turkish bombing of the areas is in its interest to put pressure on the SDF to make concessions and expand in the region.

In this context, the danger of the Turkish occupation state on the areas of the AANES will continue as long as its terrorist organizations are being defeated at the hands of the SDF and as long as the international community remains silent about Turkish violations on the region and its role in protecting and supporting terrorist organizations in the areas of the Turkish occupation.