土耳其戰機襲擊伊敘前線庫爾德目標
Turkish warplanes on Tuesday targeted fighters from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, the PKK, as well as members of the YPG, a key Kurdish affiliate on the Iraqi-Syrian frontier.
Monitors from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said Wednesday at least 28 people were killed in the strikes with around 20 others injured.
Turkey, the United States and the European Union have designated the PKK as a terrorist organization for its decades-long autonomy push against the Ankara government in Turkey's southeast. On Tuesday, the Turkish military defended the expanded airstrikes.
"To destroy these terror hubs, which threaten the security, unity and integrity of our country and our nation, and as part of our rights based on international law, airstrikes have been carried out," a short Turkish military statement read.
Witnesses said Turkey's target grid was expanded for the first time Tuesday to include the Sinjar Mountains, a territory in northern Iraq where another Kurdish militia with links to the PKK was also hit by the airstrikes. Turkey has described Sinjar as a Kurdish logistics hub where militants plan attacks inside Turkish territory.土耳其戰機星期二襲擊了被取締的庫爾德工人黨戰鬥人員以及伊敘前線重要的庫爾德力量--人民保衛部隊的成員。
來自敘利亞人權瞭望臺的觀察員在星期三的一份聲明中說，至少28人在空襲中喪生，還有約20人受傷。
幾十年來，庫爾德工人黨一直在土耳其東南部爲爭取更多的自治而戰。土耳其、美國和歐盟都把庫爾德工人黨認定爲恐怖組織。星期二，土耳其軍方爲擴大空襲進行辯護。
土軍方在一份簡短聲明中說，“爲了摧毀這些威脅安全、團結和我們國家和民族主權的恐怖據點，基於國際法上我們所擁有權利，我們實施了空襲” 。
目擊者說，土耳其的空襲目標星期二首次擴大到包括伊拉克北部的辛賈爾山，另外一支和庫爾德工人黨有關的庫爾德民兵也遭到空襲的打擊。土耳其稱辛賈爾山是庫爾德的補給中心，激進分子在那裏計劃襲擊土耳其本土。
