Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
On October 9, 2019 the Turkish army with Islamic allies started an offensive targeting mainly the area between Sere Kaniye and Tell Abiad. SDF in turn started to defend it.
After few hours a massive displacement of population started toward south areas of Hasake, Raqqa, Ein issa and Tel Tamir. Below the detailed report day by day with photos and the casualties recorded. in PDF
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The Kurdistan Human Rights Association calls on the international community, the UN Security Council, the United States, France, Germany and other countries opposing the Turkish military attack on the confederation in western Kurdistan in northeastern Syria.
“Any attack on journalists is strictly prohibited under international law, which requires belligerents to protect media personnel along with humanitarian personnel and all other civilians.”
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Rupert Colville, Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Syria, 15 october 2019
Since the Turkish military offensive began on 9 October, we have verified a number of civilian casualties each day as a result of airstrikes, ground-based strikes and sniper fire. The worst incident we are aware of so far, which we are still seeking to fully verify, is a report that at least four civilians, including two journalists, were killed and tens of others injured when a convoy of vehicles was hit by a Turkish airstrike. The attack reportedly took place on the Tel-Tamor – Ras al-Ain Highway on Sunday (13 October).
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After the declaration by the Turkish occupation of the aggression on northern and eastern Syria on 19 september 2019 and the shelling of areas of northern and eastern and it bombing with missiles and aircraft targeting civilians and their homes and following the most heinous means of killings , the Turkish occupation and its mercenary aim is to displace civilians from their homes and areas in order to change demographic characteristics of the region and he bought terrorists groups to thr areas they aim to occupy and to act by the most heinous terrorist means as he did in every region entered by the Turkish occupation with his mercenary from killing and theft and looting displacement of residents and kidnapping civilians and field executions as he did in Afrin , Jarablus , Bab and every region occupied it and annexing Syrian territory to Turkey and the demographic of the region change and life has been restored to a ISIS terrorist.
Ignazio Cassis has criticised the Turkish military operation in northern Syria calling it a flagrant violation of international law.
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We have begun receiving reports of civilian casualties – as of last night we had reports of seven civilians, including two women and a boy who had been killed with another boy injured, during the first two days of the Turkish operation. In addition, a civilian man was reported killed in Jarablus on 9 October and a woman and a boy injured yesterday during counter-attacks and ground strikes by Kurdish non-State armed groups.
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