Hours before the announcement of a truce agreed on by international powers to end the conflict and pave the way for a political solution in Syria, ISIS, Al-Nusra and AKP-backed gangs announced they would not abide by such a cease-fire.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu's remarks “We won't recognize the truce in Syria” was followed by a dispatchment of gang groups from İdlip to Azaz and Jarablus

During the same hours, ISIS gangs started a fresh occupation campaign by attacking Girê Spî (Tal Abyad) under the supervision of Turkish soldiers at Akçakale border.

Through this occupation campaign, the Turkish state wanted to regain the reputation it had lost, and to revive its failed Syria-Rojava policy. They activated gang groups in 25 separate locations against Gire Spî town centre and the Siluk-Mebruka-Ayn İsa line just like what they had done in Kobanê case. They wanted to open a windpipe for the gangs by means of this aggression.

These heinous attacks of the Turkish state were expelled owing to an early intervention by YPG and SDF combatants before achieving the goal. Most of the gangs participating in the attack were annihilated.

It would be of use to reveal some details provided by the reporters on the ground in Girê Spî and scenes of clashes, which expose the dirty background of the attack.

TURKISH SOLDIERS ENABLED THE CROSSING OF GANGS

Gang groups entered Girê Spî from three directions through the paths opened by Turkish soldiers particularly for this aggression that had been organized by the Turkish state. In other words, it is Turkish soldiers that brought these gangs to the border and then enabled their crossing into Girê Spî to carry out this attack. This activity at the border was also witnessed by a number of local people living in the area. Upon the beginning of clashes, Turkish soldiers continued to support the gangs by shelling YPG and SDF positions with artillery fire.

TURKISH SOLDIERS KILLED A YPG-QSD FIGHTER AT BORDER

The fighting began at 01:00 at night and continued throughout the next day. Those gang members that survived the confrontation did cross back into Akçakale side through the paths opened by Turkish soldiers. Ambulances were also held ready in Akçakale to carry wounded members of gangs groups.

A YPG/SDF fighter that intervened the ISIS gangs fleeing towards the Turkish border was shot and martyred by Turkish soldiers.

GANGS WORE HPC UNIFORMS

The gangs that attacked Girê Spî acted within the scope of a major plan in the same way they did in Kobanê massacre. The plan was to attack the Îskan area, Ayn Arûs, Watanî Hospital and Hemam Tirkman village and to gain control over these strategic points before conducting another aggression on 25 more locations. They meant to cut off the connection of the town from surroundings and thus hinder the access of reinforcements with the final objective of re-occupying the town.

In the same way gangs had been wearing YPG uniforms while attacking Kobanê, those attacking Girê Spî were dressed in uniforms of Self-Defense Forces (HPC) to avoid grabbing attention while moving and reach their target in a shorter while. This tactics can be said to have helped the gangs as they managed to reach some locations of importance in the town. Yet, they could neither get out of the town alive nor achieved the goal of the attack.

GANGS MASSACRED THE PEOPLE

Similar to the manner Kobanê massacre was perpetrated, the gang groups attacked civilian people after suffering a defeat at the hands of YPG and SDF combatants. In the southern Girê Spî area where they managed to advance, gangs savagely massacred 15 people from a family of Arab origin. These were children, women and elderly.

The night truce in Syria took effect, the Turkish state and gangs organised by it attempted to occupy Girê Spî and committed a massacre, exposing the heinous plans they together are after.