Turkey presses Syrian assault as thousands flee the fighting

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Turkey pressed its assault against U.S.-allied Kurdish forces in northern Syria for a second day, pounding the region with airstrikes and an artillery bombardment that raised columns of black smoke in a border town and sent panicked civilians scrambling.

People help a wounded boy as they take cover after mortars fired from Syria, in Akcakale, Turkey, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. An Associated Press journalist said at least two government buildings were hit by the mortars in Sanliurfa province's border town of Akcakale and at least two people were wounded.

in Congress, along with many national defense experts, who say it has endangered not only the Kurds and regional stability but U.S. credibility as well. The Syrian Kurdish militia was the only U.S. ally in the campaign that brought down the Islamic State group in Syria. As the shelling intensified, cars packed with civilians crowded a bridge linking Syria and Iraq, hoping to escape the shelling and airstrikes.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said 109 “terrorists” were killed in the offensive, a reference to the Syrian Kurdish fighters. He did not elaborate, and reports from the area did not indicate anything remotely close to such a large number of casualties. Ankara considers members of the Kurdish militia to be “terrorists” because of their links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which has led an insurgency against Turkey for 35 years. The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people. The U.S. and other Western countries also consider the PKK a terrorist group.

Mustafa Bali, a spokesman for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, said their fighters have repelled Turkish forces ground attacks.But Maj. Youssef Hammoud, a spokesman for Turkish-backed opposition fighters participating in the operation, said they captured the village of Yabisa, near Tal Abyad, a spokesman for the fighters said. In a tweet, he called it “the first village to win freedom.”

 

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PROUD OF YOURSELF AMERICA ?

Another tRump favor for the Russians

HSajwanization You cheat people by making false news. Turkish military never targets civilian people. Turks and Kurds are already at peace. The Turks are not fighting against the Kurds but against the Pkk/Pyg/Ypg.

Ben sizin haberi çevirip okudum siz de çevirin okuyun .siz şerefsiz siniz yalancısınız adisiniz bu haber yalan doğrusu ise o bombayı teröristler attı bunu da biliyorsunuz ama haber işinize gelmiyor .yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh

HSajwanization But baby the photo you used is from Turkey not from Syria.

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HSajwanization No we Turks are not responsible for this pyd / ypg. Look at the uniform, our health care provider, why should we help?!! BabyKillerPKK BabyKillerPYD BabyKillerYPG BabyKillerUSA •NE MUTLU TÜRK’ÜM DİYENE ! (Bunu da sen çevir) !!!

İsminizi yalan haber ajansı diye değiştirin serefsizler

Yalancı şerefsizler burdaki insanlar pkk tararindan havan topuyla saldırıya uğrayıp ölen insanlar bunu yapan pkk ypg yalan söyleyip algı yapıyorsunuz

I like how this picture is not bipartisan at all.

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Turkish soldier never kills civilians. Syrian people support Turkish soldiers. We are in Syria for peace. terroristSDF TürkMilletiOrdusununYanında

Kurds and Turks brothers. Pkk not honest. We lived in this land for hundreds of years brotherly,we will continue to live. Turkey against PKK. Because PKK is a terror organisation.

HSajwanization

Erdogan isn`t impeached, . America is already a hostage to it`s own world order and Republicans. As a result, the USA is losing strength and dominance, America's competitors have grown. But President Biden and Vice President Milla Jovovich will MAGA! Vote for Biden!!!

This is a big lie because the person is wearing a turkey medical staff dress, so the news in the second picture is true BabyKillerPKK

Kurds' lives for a Trump tower in Turkey.

😁😁😁😁 cibiliyetsizler

HSajwanization SİZİN ŞEREFİNİZ YOK

HSajwanization Arapların da medyasınında amk zaten oldum olası sevmem bu dönek arapları. Cahil salaklar bi bok bildiğiniz yok anca tasmanızı tutan Abd ye yalakalık ve propaganda yaparsınız. BabyKillerYPG BarısPınarıHerakatı TurkeyJustKilledTerrorists its a not war its a counterterrorism

Alles große Lüge

İdiot, 112 acil sağlık is Türkiye , healt organization 😂

Wouldn’t that be formerly allied.

HSajwanization

We must kill the terrorists

Thank you Turkey !!

Baby killer PKK

See the truth

In 2 days 24 dead..its on Trumps head. Bone Spur Coward in Chief. Putin is running Syria as well as Trump.

what kind of news agency are you? Don’t make false and false news.. Be fair don’t do propaganda TurkeyJustKilledTerrorists

Yalanınız bastın sizin karaktersizler ❗️❗️❗️

HSajwanization Geri zekalilar resme bakin once 112 acil servis yazar gorevlinin uzerinde olsa olsa bu tererustlarin kallesce vurdugu Turkiye Cumhuriyeti vatandasidir. Itlikten baska bildiginiz yok.

Hahaha “112 Acil servis” Did we bomb ourselves? Good manuplation but no body doesn't believe in you

...now their economy is in ruins....believes no one.

billpostmus I support Trump on a lot of stuff, but totally 100% in disagreement on what he has done in Northern Syria..

Hey isn't Turkey our NATO ally?

Turkey = murderers

billpostmus Turkey is an ally. PKK is a terrorist org we had an agreement with.

Well, good to see the emergency health services of Turkey rendering aid.

May the guilt and blood of the murder of these innocent people always remain with you trump. You know not what you are doing. Hope they string you up for vast murders, treason, racism. You do not deserve to breath the same air you took away from those you murdered.

HSajwanization Haberi dogru oku amina korum senin orospu cocugu

HSajwanization

Terrorist state killing innocents civilians like they have been doing in their entire history. KurdishGenocide TurkeyIsATerrorState

That photo is from Turkey, not from Syria Akçakale hit by PKK/YPG mortar attack to civilian areas 3 civilians killed, 1 of them a baby, many injured Boy is not a Kurd, but a Syrian Refugee living in Turkey Check the note below photo from the AP link yourself ! Perception !

Who died from lying? Can we briefly call you a 'lying agency'? 😎

HSajwanization Good propaganda !

Turkish slaughter has began He had sacked 1000s fr d army after d coup

*Former* U.S. allied.

This photo is staged!😂 Only liberals fall for this nonsense.

TrumpGenocide

This picture were taken from Turkey after SDF attacked to a village in Turkey. 6 civilians killed including a 9 month infant. Be honourable! At least be respectful to your readers. OperationPeaceSpring BabyKillerPKK

I think that this picture is from Turkey. I see a guy wearing a uniform of Turkish emergency service.

On your hands the live if this people trump senatemajldr LindseyGrahamSC

It’s so sad to see that our soulless sociopath of a president sits back and allows innocent people to die .

The cover picture is from Eastern Turkey, villagers brought their injured whose village was attacked by YPG artillery and killed 2+ from the other side of border. So this is a picture YPG murdering civilians.. The Associated Press manipulating as always BabyKillerPYD PKK

We should have never been there in the first place

Isn’t Turkey our Ally as well? I know we have a Treaty with them and they are part of NATO. Why not mention that in your headline?

This photo is from Turkey, and this mother and child got wounded by mortars fire of PKK terrorist organization. Mind reading the news story and checking out the pic before making allegations, you commeantators?

Make Real News 💥Kurdish Terorist group PKK-Ypg killed 6 people in Turkish border. 3 of them; 1 mother, 2 daughters (10 and baby), 1 government clerk.

Arabia has been doing the same thing for years now. With our weapons.

The photos in this story, of kids in the arms of adults running for their lives, are heartbreaking. TrumpBetrayedTheKurds

Blood on Trump's hands. Well, more blood on Trump's hands.

Turkey with Erdogan is not a country of the free world. eu_eeas EU NATO UN Should send forces to stop them. The war in Syria should have been stopped many years ago.

Total abandonment 😟

You are tellig a lie.

Turkish-Kurdish conflicts have nothing to do with the US. Im glad we’re staying out of it.

Εrdogan passa pirate barbarian actions against civilization

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truth

realDonaldTrump has blood on his hands!!

Ex U.S.-allied Kurdish forces, they were abandoned by USA.

'Kurdish forces'? What regiment do you suppose that kid was in? TrumpGenocide

Tuck Furkey.

Turkey is a rogue state, plain and simple.

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