The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

YPG accuses Turkey of attempting to enter groups into their border controlled areas

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights received a copy of a statement issued by the YPG, it stated:
“” Since the start of the Euphrates Wrath campaign, the Turkish State’s attacks have increased against our forces and the land of Rojava, and when our fighters seeks to liberate Al-Raqqah city from the mercenaries of Daesh; Turkey is trying to strike us from the back and distract our attention. And in the context of these attacks, the Turkish army tried yesterday evening the 7th of November 2016 to enter groups into Rojava from two different areas, the first place where the Turkish army tried to enter groups of mercenaries to Rojava was the village of “Duda”,which is located between the cities of Qameshly and Amuda, where 12 persons arrived by two bullet proof cars and a civilian car to the borders of Rojava at about 19 o’clock, and after the intervention of our units to protect the border, the clashes broke out in the area, and when our units have clashed against those mercenary group the Turkish Army targeted from its armored vehicles our fighters, and according to what our units have documented, 2 mercenaries were injured during the clashes and were transported by the Turkish armored vehicles from the area, and after the clashes the mercenaries who tried to enter Rojava returned back, and the second place of which the mercenaries tried to enter Rojava was west of Kobani city, where the mercenaries have arrived with the help of the Turkish army at around 19:00, and after their arrival to the border our units watched them, and at approximately 19:30 clashes between our forces against the mercenaries took place after the mercenaries opened fire on our forces, and the clashes continued until 24:00, after that the mercenaries withdrew from the area. And at the same time the armored vehicles of the Turkish army do not stop moving at the borders of the areas of Dirk and Kerki lki, and in the same night the Turkish army targeted using heavy weapons the villages of Jelbnaf, Kouran and Alsen of Kri Sbi””