An Armed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (SIHA) believed to belong to the Turkish state bombed a civilian vehicle at the entrance to the city of Kobanê.

No details of the attack have yet been obtained.

On 19 August, Kurdish revolutionary Tekin Goyî (Ismet Ünver) was killed by a Turkish drone in Qamishlo.

Background

Turkey has been using drones for the extralegal killing of ‘enemies’ in South Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) for years. The targets of the attacks are people who are in any way associated with the PKK by the Turkish state. From this perspective, this also includes the entire autonomous region of Northern and Eastern Syria. More than 110 drone attacks have already been recorded there this year alone, many of them with fatal consequences. Hardly a day has gone by in the KRI in recent weeks and months without an attack or mobility by Turkish drones. The international community is ignoring this air war by the Turkish state against the people of Kurdistan.