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On May 4, the Turkish Ministry of National Defenses said that an officer of the Turkish Armed Forces was killed in an attack in the northern Syrian area of Afrin.
The ministry identified the slain officer as Lt. Talha Bahadır without providing any details on the attack that claimed his life.
Syrian opposition sources reported two attacks by Kurdish forces on the Turkish military in Afrin on May 3 and 4. An attack with indirect fire targeted a Turkish position in the outskirts of the town of Kaljibrin. Later, an attack with an anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) targeted a Turkish military vehicle near the town of Kimar. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the Turkish officer was killed in the second attack.
The Turkish military responded to the attacks with a series of artillery strikes that targeted areas held by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the northern Aleppo countryside. The Turkish Ministry of National Defense claimed that 24 Kurdish fighters were “neutralized”. However, Syrian sources didn’t report any losses.
Lt. Bahadır was the second Turkish service member to be killed by Kurdish forces in Syria in less than two weeks. On April 22, police officer Aytac Altinors was killed when the Afrin Liberation Forces (ALF), an affiliate of the SDF, targeted a Turkish military vehicle near the town of Marea in the northern countryside of Aleppo with ATGMs.
The ALF have been fairly active in Afrin and other Turkish-occupied areas in the northern Aleppo countryside. On May 3, the Kurdish group released a video documenting one of several attacks it carried out against Turkish-backed militants between April 23 and 30. The Kurdish guerilla group claimed that 14 militants were killed and two others were wounded as a result of the attacks.
The Turkish military and its proxies may intensify their operations against Kurdish forces in northern and northeastern Syria in response to the recent attacks.
Kurdish forces are likely attempting to deter Ankara, who has been reportedly preparing to launch a new large-scale military operation in Syria.
It’s all good when turkeys get plucked. Erdog is playing too many losing games simultaneously for a debt strapped fourth world shithole..
If Russia had the balls they should be sending ten Javelin and stingers for every byaktar they shoot down. Let it be known that every drone will mean the kurds will be given all NATOS left overs.
What about ruZZian generals dying like flies? Where are the news on that? SF not biased?
Meanwhile 50+ ruski officers/generals perished LOOOL
Time for you to perish by dying of cancer and gonorrhea in your filthy shithole basement, you are already half dead and stink like a corpse.
Nice. Hands off Kurdistan y’all imperialist scum! Biji YPG! Biji YPJ!
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Very good! Syria’s grave for UNHUMAN GENOCIDALS! Ahhahahahaahha! That “pigMinistry of National Defense claimed that 24 Kurdish fighters were “neutralized””??? AHAHAHAHA! IT get confused with ITS chihuahuas scums! Ahahahahahahaahahahaha! Funny STUFF, IT is! It’s a pity not 1 MILLION UNHUMAN GENOCIDALS PER DAY! SHITtila it is ‘you’? AHAHAHAHAHA!” Biji YPG! Biji YPJ! Hêr biji Kurd! Hêr biji Suriya!