A damaged vehicle is pictured after Turkish warplanes carried out air strikes, in Derik countryside, Syria November 21, 2022. Picture: REUTERS/Istanbul/Amman — Turkey said a Kurdish militia killed two people in mortar attacks from northern Syria on Monday, in an escalation of cross-border retaliation after Turkish air operations at the weekend and a deadly bomb attack in Istanbul a week ago.
A pregnant woman initially reported as killed was badly wounded and is under treatment in hospital, Soylu said later. Turkey said its weekend operation was in retaliation for the bomb attack in Istanbul last week that killed six people, and which authorities blamed on Kurdish militants. A spokesperson for the SDF had said the weekend Turkish strikes destroyed grain silos, a power station and a hospital, killing 11 civilians, an SDF fighter and two guards. It also said it would retaliate.During the weekend violence, eight Turkish security personnel were wounded in YPG rocket attacks from Syria’s Tal Rifat on a police post near a border gate in Kilis province, Ankara said.
Turkey’s armed forces have conducted several large-scale military operations in recent years in northern Iraq and northern Syria against the YPG, PKK and Islamic State.
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