Close to the lines of contact with Kurdish forces in northern Syria, displaced Ahmed Yassin fears he will again have to flee a village controlled by Syrian groups loyal to Ankara if Turkey launches a ground attack in the square.
Yasin, 34, told AFP: “Despite the circumstances we have gone through, including tragedy, lack of employment opportunities and poverty … we are now again threatened with displacement due to a possible military battle.”
After being moved repeatedly over the past five years, Yassin lives in an overcrowded camp on the outskirts of the village of Sandaf, near the Tel Rifaat area, which is under the control of Kurdish forces in the province of Aleppo (north), and is one of three areas that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan named targets for attack last month. Berry is brandishing accusations in northern Syria.
Since November 20, Turkey has launched a series of airstrikes and artillery attacks on Kurdish forces in Syria and Iraq after accusing it, despite its denials, of being involved in the November 13 improvised explosive device explosion in Istanbul that killed six people. .
And after the strikes, which mainly hit the military points of the Syrian Democratic Forces, Ankara is threatening a ground strike, the timing of which is not defined, and through which it seeks to achieve its southern borders, including the areas of Tal-Rifaat, Manbij and Kobani, located in the zones of influence of the Kurds in governorate of Aleppo.
