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Abdi: The UN report is just a small part of the war crimes
... a Twitter post on the documented facts, Commander-in-Chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Mazloum Abdi said: “The report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry is a just small part of the war crimes committed by the armed factions against our people in Afrin, Serekaniye and Tal Abyad, with political cover from Turkey. The international community should hold the parties accountable for war crimes and take serious action to prosecute the perpetrators of these crimes and bring them to justice.” The SDF Commander General added: “In the section that concerns our forces, there is ...
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"What's Turkey doing here?"
...der whose aegis the ceasefire agreement was signed, are just watching. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the Turkish invasions in Northern Syria. The attacks of the occupying forces on the civilian population are continuing even less than a year after the invasions in Girê Spî (Tal Abyad) and Serêkaniyê (Ras al-Ain) last October. Turkey wants to expand its occupation zone and depopulate the region. To this end, various methods are being used. In order to stop the attacks on the civilian population, ceasefire agreements have been agreed with Russia and the US as guarantor powers,...
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Women in Raqqa call for unity against occupation
Women in the Raqqa city took to the streets to denounce the crimes committed in Turkish occupied regions in North-East Syria. Raqqa Women’s Office promoted a demonstration in protest at the Turkish crimes committed in Serekaniye (Ras al-Ain), Gire Spi (Tal Abyad) and Afrin regions which are occupied by the Turkish army and allied mercenary groups. The demonstration was staged under the motto “Let’s unite against Turkish occupation”. A number of women joined the protest march, as well as dozens from the democratic society organizations and people’s mu...
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“Turkey’s acts seek to obliterate the heritage of the region”
...anisms to protect antiquities and archaeological sites under the control of the Turkish occupation. The co-president of the Girê Spi Canton Council, Hevin Ismail, spoke to Hawar News Agency (ANHA) on the Turkish occupation army recently bulldozing the most important archaeological hill in Girê Spi (Tal Abyad) in preparation for its looting. Hevin condemned "the criminal act aimed at obliterating the civilizational and cultural heritage of the region, which is a continuation of Turkey's criminal policies in Girê Spi after the forcible displacement of its people with the occupation of the city and its...
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Tribesman kidnapped by occupying forces in Girê Spî
...ne in northern Syria, a member of the al-Bu Asaf tribe was abducted from his home by Turkish-backed militiamen. About 200 people protested outside a Turkish base. On Wednesday night a group of Turkish-backed jihadists raided the house of Hemud Djasim al-Ayaf in the village of Menkelî near Girê Spî (Tal Abyad) and abducted the man to an unknown location. Al-Ayaf is one of the leading figures of the al-Bu Asaf tribe. There is no information available about his whereabouts. After the abduction, about 200 members of the tribe protested outside a nearby Turkish base. A few days ago, 15-year-old Yusif Cud...
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Occupation forces bulldoze archaeological hill in Girê Spî
...cupation forces and mercenaries bulldoze most important archaeological hill in Girê Spi to loot it. Rojava-based Hawar News Agency (ANHA) reported that the Turkish occupation army and allied jihadist mercenaries have begun to bulldoze the most important archaeological hill in the occupied Girê Spi [Tal Abyad] in preparation for looting it. The source cited by ANHA stated that the occupation forces yesterday brought military bulldozers to the ancient Sahlan village near the village of Khirbet Al-Raz in the occupied Girê Spî city and began to bulldoze and dig the hill in front of the eyes of the peopl...
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Urgent call for action against Turkey cutting off water to Heseke
...to the United Nations about the Turkish occupation state and the Syrian armed factions cutting off the drinking water supply to the people in the Syrian city of Al-Hasakah. For the eighth time since the Turkish state and the Syrian armed factions have invaded the city of Ras al-Ain (Serekaniye), Tal Abyad (Gire Spi) and the surrounding villages, they cut off the supply of water from the Allouk station of the occupied Ras al-Ain area, as these wells are the main and only source of water. The facility supplies one million people in the city of Al-Hasakah, the sub-district of Tal Tamr, Al-Shaddadi, its...
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Occupation forces bomb Til Rifat
...claring that they would follow the UN appeal in the autonomous region and calling on all other parties to the conflict to immediately observe a humanitarian ceasefire. But so far the other warring parties have ignored this outstretched hand. In the cities of Serêkaniyê (Ras al-Ain) and Girê Spî (Tal Abyad), which have been included in the Turkish occupation zone in North-East Syria since October 2019, and in the self-governing areas along the Turkish-Syrian border, significant military activities of Turkey's jihadist proxy army ("Syrian National Army", SNA) are taking place. Turkey is using the C...
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Three-stage plan for the Turkification of North-East Syria
... an argument for the Turkish state's interventionism in Syria. But this slogan changed into a policy of Turkishness when it was put into practice. The best example of this is the development of the Turkish strategy for Syria. In the occupied territories from Idlib to Afrin, Jarablus, Bab, Girê Spî (Tal Abyad) and Serêkaniyê (Ras al-Ain), the AKP/MHP regime is pursuing a massive policy of Turkification. Steps of the Turkification process Turkification is taking place step by step. For example, the names of territories are being Turkified, Turkish post offices are being set up, district governors a...
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"It's like hell in occupied Girê Spî"
Meryem Mihemed, who fled from the Turkish occupied region of Girê Spî, reports of atrocities committed by the occupation forces in the northern Syrian city. More than 100,000 people from the occupied regions around Girê Spî (Tal Abyad) and Serêkaniyê (Ras al-Ain) live in refugee camps in Northern Syria. More and more of them are coming to the camps because they can no longer bear living under the terror of the occupation regime. One of them is Meryem Mihemed. She fled from Girê Spî together with her family three months ago and n...
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Turkey’s mercenaries kill a civilian in occupied Gire Spi
The Turkish state and jihadist allies continue committing crimes against the local people in the territories they have invaded in North-East Syria in violation of international law. Residents in the Turkish occupied Gire Spi (Tal Abyad) city have found a lifeless body on the road of the Riz village on Sunday. The slain man was identified as a civilian named Abdullah Shehade. According to reports, the man had been abducted by Turkish-backed mercenaries from the village of Riz two days ago. Gire Spi remains occupied by the Tu...
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Turkish army bombs a village in Gire Spi
The Turkish state’s genocidal attacks against North-East Syria continue unabated. At 10.30 am local time today, the Turkish army has carried out an artillery attack on the populated village of Evdiko near Girê Spî (Tal Abyad). The Turkish army is trying to drive the civilian population out of the area around the occupied zone in northeast Syria by means of artillery attacks and to expand its occupation zone. The aim is to occupy a wide strip of land that includes the strategically important M4 highway. This would br...
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AANES calls for Turkey to be held to account for supporting ISIS
...mercial dealings between them, the reception and the treatment of ISIS’ wounded people in Turkey. Not to mention the new form of ISIS support, including its sleeper cells and the mercenaries who were in the ranks of ISIS and bringing them to the areas of Afrin, Serekaniye (Ras al-Ain) and Gire Spi (Tal Abyad) under the name of Syrian National Army in an attempt to deceive the international public. The al-Hawl (Hol) camp, which houses thousands of ISIS women and children, was part of the continuing Turkish attempts to penetrate the camp and smuggle these women, and use them as a bargaining chip to bl...
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Turkey "rescues" Moldovan ISIS woman from Hol Camp
... with arrogant rhetoric that the MIT has told Moldovan Natalia Barkal "using technical possibilities and unique methods of artificial intelligence" how she could leave the camp. On June 6, she was finally "liberated from the hands of YPG/PKK" and first taken to the Turkish occupation zone Girê Spî (Tal Abyad). Yesterday, Thursday, Barkal and her four children aged between one and ten years were received at Chisinau airport by Moldovan President Igor Dodon. The pro-Russian politician then twittered that the "successful operation to repatriate a Moldovan family from Syria" was on his initiative. Accor...
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Gravestones used to build military bases in Girê Spî
...s besieged and plundered by jihadists. The Turkish occupying forces in northern Syria are expanding their military positions in preparation for further attacks. With the support of Islamist proxies, 33 military posts and five bases have been built so far in the regions around Ain Issa and Girê Spî (Tal Abyad). Military units have been stationed at all points. According to the Rojava-based ANHA news agency, gravestones have been torn out in Kefifa, a village near Girê Spî, and used to build positions. Occupiers commit robbery and murder in Girê Spî In Girê Spî, according to local sources, jihad...
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Huge explosion in Gire Spi
Initial reports speak of casualties. A violent explosion occurred in the Turkish occupied Gire Spi (Tal Abyad) city on Tuesday. While details of the explosion were not immediately available, initial reports speak of casualties. The Turkish occupied city witnessed violent clashes between Sultan Murad, Faylaq al-Sham and Ahrar al-Sharqiya mercenaries two days ago. Unlike previous clashes among the T...
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Turkish forces and mercenaries attack villages in Ain Issa
...en route from Ain Issa to Chalabi town. The driver, identified as 31-year-old Usama al-Asaf, was injured as a result of the bombardment. He was taken to hospital by local residents. Ain Issa occupies key strategic position Ain Issa is located about 45 kilometres south of the town of Girê Spî (Tal Abyad), which has been occupied since last October by Turkey and its proxy army "SNA", on the strategic M4 road. Due to its relative proximity to the city of Raqqa and thus to the gate to Deir ez-Zor, Ain Issa occupies a key strategic position in Turkey's occupation plans. Artillery strikes and heavy wea...
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Call for humanitarian aid from Zirgan
...ime are becoming increasingly noticeable. In some areas, in addition to the effects of the economic embargo, the constant attacks by the Turkish army and its Islamist proxies are making people's lives more difficult. The regions around the occupied cities of Serêkaniyê (Ras al-Ain) and Girê Spî (Tal Abyad) are particularly affected. The town of Zirgan is located 23 kilometres east of Serêkaniyê and is subject to constant attacks. Of the 76 villages in the town, 27 have been occupied by the Turkish state. The approximately 30,000 people living in the town and the surrounding villages cannot cover the...
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Turkish attack injures a Syrian soldier in a village of Gire Spi
The Turkish regime’s genocidal attacks on North-East Syria continue unabated. The occupant Turkish state forces attacked the village of Evdiko in the occupied Gire Spi (Tal Abyad) city Thursday afternoon. According to reports from the ground, the artillery attack injured a Syrian soldier by the name of Firat Milhim. Fighting erupted in the area following the Turkish attack, reports say.
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Protest in Ain Issa against Turkey’s war crimes
...people took to the streets in Ain Issa in northern Syria on Monday in protest at the attacks by the Turkish army. The reason was the targeted killing of three women, including activists from the women's movement Kongreya Star, by a Turkish drone in Kobanê last week. Displaced persons from Girê Spî (Tal Abyad) also took part in the demonstration, which continued from the city centre to the Russian military base in the east of Ain Issa. The demonstration was led by security forces of Asayish. Women marched on the front of the procession, displaying pictures of activists Zehra Berkel, Hebûn Mele Xelîl ...