Commander of YPG to the Syrian Observatory: “Turkey continues to occupy areas north of Syria without any reaction by the regime or Russia and all Syrians have to defend their country”

With the increase of tension in Afrin area in the northwestern countryside of Aleppo between YPG who control Afrin area and the area extending to the vicinity of Marea with the Syria Democratic Forces against Turkish forces, who are preparing with the factions that work in the countryside of Aleppo to carry out a military operation.
The YPG commander stated to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the area which is between the Jarabulus at the western banks of the Euphrates River and between Azaz which is controlled by the Turkish forces; are “areas occupied by Turkey and every Syrian citizen must defend them, and YPG has no plans to carry out an attack on this area but it sees itself ready and prepared to defend any Syrian area against any kind of occupation of the territory of the country”, also the commander of YPG added that “no direct and explicit evidence about a Russian-Syrian-Turkish agreement for the entry of Turkish forces into the Syrian territory, but at the same time there is no clear reaction by the regime or by Russia to the Turkish occupation of lands in the north of country, which increases the likelihood of existence of undeclared within-consensus between these parties “

These statements come as Turkish forces continue to bring reinforcements to the southern countryside of Azaz in the northern countryside of Aleppo, and completing the preparations for a military operation the Turkish forces and the factions by witch aim to control the area from Marea’ to Deir Jamal north Aleppo.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published, a few days earlier the information it received about preparations in the western countryside of Aleppo, for a simultaneous attack in this countryside, where it is expected to be carried out in the northern countryside of Aleppo in the coming period.

The Syrian Observatory also published that the area of Afrin and its outskirts and the areas controlled by the Syria Democratic forces in the northern countryside of Aleppo, has been shelled repeatedly by the forces of the Turkish Forces and the rebel and Islamic factions, accompanied by exchange of targeting between the factions and the Syria Democratic Forces with shells and heavy machine guns, and the Syrian Observatory published earlier that tensions prevails the northern countryside of Aleppo, near the Syrian-Turkish borders. The SOHR learned that this tension came after the arrival of the reinforcements of the Turkish forces to the southern countryside of Azaz. Tensions are also mixed up with anticipation in Afrin area for any developments in the current situation amid continued preparations of by the factions of the countryside of Aleppo along with the Turkish forces to carry out a wide-scale military operation against the Syria Democratic Forces in Afrin and the area located between Marea’ and Deir Jamal in the northern countryside of Aleppo.