Turkey Shells Kurdish Areas in Syria's Aleppo: Report
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Turkish artillery bombarded Kurdish areas in the northern province of Aleppo, a report said.
According to the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Turkish shelling on Saturday struck areas of Aleppo, including Minnigh, recently taken by the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), AFP reported.
The shelling came shortly after Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Ankara would, if necessary, take military action against the Kurds.
"We can if necessary take the same measures in Syria as we took in Iraq and Qandil," Davutoglu said in a televised speech on Saturday.
A YPG source told AFP that the Turkish shelling targeted the strategic Minnigh military airport, which Kurdish forces retook late on Wednesday.
Minnigh base lies between two key roads leading from Aleppo city to Azaz to the north, which would have given Kurdish fighters a launching pad to attack extremists further east.
Syrian government forces lost control of Minnigh air base in August 2013, two years after the start of the conflict in Syria that has now killed more than 260,000 people and displaced millions.
