Status: 11/20/2022 6:37 p.m
According to Turkish media reports, a rocket fired from Syria injured several people on the Turkish-Syrian border. Turkey had previously attacked Kurdish positions in Syria and Iraq.
According to state media, after airstrikes by the Turkish military on Kurdish militia positions, there was rocket fire in Turkey near the Syrian border. Two soldiers and six police officers were injured near the Turkish city of Kilis, the state news agency Anadolu reported on Sunday. The rocket was fired by the Syrian Kurdish militia YPG, it said. The AFP news agency reports at least three injuries.
A spokesman for the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Kurdish activists told the dpa news agency that Turkish military bases in the Syrian region of Aleppo had been shelled. They were retaliatory measures for the Turkish attacks.
Previously Turkish attack on Kurdish positions
The Turkish military had attacked Kurdish positions in northern Syria and northern Iraq on Sunday night. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at least 31 people were killed and scores injured, some seriously.
Turkey named the northern Iraqi towns of Kandil, Asus, Hakurk and the Syrian towns of Tall Rifat, Kobane, Jazeera and Al-Malikiyah as targets that were bombed from the air.
The action was directed against the Syrian Kurdish militia YPG and the banned Kurdish Workers’ Party PKK, which Turkey blames for an attack in Istanbul that killed six people a week ago. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), led by Kurdish militias, had threatened Turkey with retaliation.
After the Istanbul terrorist attack: Turkish offensives in northern Iraq and northern Syria
Karin Senz, ARD Istanbul, 20.11.2022 11:52 a.m