NATO-dictator Erdoğan again in apparent collavoration with the unofficial ally Iran's forces intensifies war crimes and crimes against humanity within Erdoğan's TWO current wars of aggression, claiming the terror-regime's military "strikes back" for the defenders having killed 12 illegal invasion soldiers in Başûr/N Iraq,
by killing 26 alleged "militants" alongside definitely civilians, targeting hospital, civilian essential infrastructure, etc,
while the attacked people were celebrating Christmas (many are Syriac/Assyrian (Christian) residing where they do now because their families were displaced by Seyfo, Ottoman/Turkey's genocide a century ago).
duvarenglish.com/turkey-strike
medyanews.net/retaliatory-stri
medyanews.net/christmas-celebr
npasyria.com/en/109172/
npasyria.com/en/109199/
npasyria.com/en/109217/
anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-sy
anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-sy
hawarnews.com/en/turkish-occup

The aggressor "strikes back" for daring to self-defend.
They should simply not be there, not have invaded to begin with.

Also, this is entirely fabricated false casus belli, not only as both wars are crimes against peace in their entirety, but also because the defenders weekly publish outcomes of their actions, often listing more than double those deaths among aggressor forces per week.
Erdoğan just wanted to attack right now.

"Maps show sites in NE Syria targeted by Turkey"
npasyria.com/en/109249/
More maps in the article of Erdoğan's Christmas-aggression against the Women's Revolution.

Updated:
"Turkey has targeted 25 critical infrastructure sites in North and East Syria, leaving a trail of destruction and an alarming death toll."
medyanews.net/civilian-casualt

"Turkish drones bomb oxygen center in Qamishlo [...] The only oxygen center in Qamishlo [...] near the kidney hospital."
anfenglish.com/rojava-syria/tu

"Statement Regarding the Recent Turkish Aggression Against Our Regions",
just now from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance including YPG, YPJ and many other militias defending the self-liberated autonomous North and East Syria ("Rojava").

Note especially that "It is crucial and necessary for our people and public opinion to recognize that, as the SDF forces, we have not suffered any losses among our fighters. The areas under attack do not house our fighters; rather, it is our people who are being specifically targeted and subjected to these assaults."
sdf-press.com/en/2023/12/state

So it follows from that: the aggressor targets civilians and civilian-essential infrastructure, not military targets AND the dictator's claims of "neutralized" 26 "militants" that Reuters just reprinted without factchecking, was a lie, as usual.
NEVER trust an authoritarian.

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Video shows the damage to the dialysis center [in the city Qamishlo, in autonomous NE Syria] after a Turkish drone targeted the center in the evening. The responsible for the center and medical leadership explains:

"In this hospital we treated about 60 or 70 patients. This was an important possibility for the patients, that before had to go to Aleppo or Damascus to see treatment. The enemy didn't even leave us this. My name is Rafa Abbas I am the responsible for the dialysis center here in Qamishlo city. 

The health committee built up this oxygen center to supply the whole city and all hospitals. Turkey didn't even leave this to us. It is not an economical institution or military facility. The medical facility only served the population."
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@YPJ_Info more verbose elsewhere,
~20 minutes ago,
with slight edits by me.

Hundreds of raids this morning in 32 cities of Turkey-held Kurdistan and all over Turkey, detaining at least 208 people including many officials of the one major anti-racist, pro-LGBTQ opposition DEM Party, reports Stêrk TV, dokuz8HABER and others.

This is a continuation of similar on smaller scale recent days by the same dictatorship-enforcement forces in the same areas, connected with the recent wars of aggression escalation by the Erdoğan-regime which has focused on committing war crimes such as bombing hospitals and other civilian-essential infrastructure.

From the ongoing burials of some of the many civilians recently murdered by dictator Erdoğan's imperialist war of aggression forces, now in Qamişlo, NE Syria ("Rojava").

"Turkish onslaughts over 13 months level NE Syria infrastructure"
npasyria.com/en/109295/

"Christians celebrate Christmas amid Turkish airstrikes on NE Syria"
npasyria.com/en/109308/

"Turkey’s Christmas Day airstrikes rattle Syria’s north-east, prompting war crime accusations"
medyanews.net/turkeys-christma

"People in Syria’s Qamishli bid farewell to 6 victims of Turkish strikes"
npasyria.com/en/109301/
npasyria.com/en/109283/

"Northern Syria: Mass mourning in Qamishli for Turkish strike victims; calls for peace escalate"
medyanews.net/northern-syria-m

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Absolute war crimes. See e.g.:

Rule 54. Attacking, destroying, removing or rendering useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population is prohibited.
ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/cust

Rule 7. The parties to the conflict must at all times distinguish between civilian objects and military objectives. Attacks may only be directed against military objectives. Attacks must not be directed against civilian objects.
ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/cust

Etc, etc...

The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (democratic confederalist self-rule of what initially was named "Rojava") 'announces the balance sheet of Turkish attacks'
[...]
"More than 2,600 villages are currently cut off from the power supply as the Turkish state continues to attack the important infrastructure of our regions"'
anfenglish.com/rojava-syria/aa

Video from protest today against Turkey's state-terror against the population of the self-liberated North and East Syria, in the Şehba area of the attacked areas.

Also, a statement from the antifascist feminist militia "Women's Defense Units" (YPJ):
"The attacks carried out by the occupying fascist Turkish state are a result of a common policy of hegemonic powers.
Today, in front of the entire world, the revolution of freedom, which has become the hope of the people, is subjected to attacks contrary to laws.
These attacks by the Turkish state primarily target areas such as oil, services, factories, and the service infrastructure of the region. Our citizens have been martyred in these brutal attacks aimed at annihilating the peoples in the region."
Read their entire statement on their website: ypjrojava.net/en/?p=20454

@b9AcE

The country remains a member of NATO, why ? If they are attacked, the rest of us have to come to their aid.

@zleap Erdoğan has several times tried to pull NATO in on their aggressor side alongside the rebranded regional al-Qaeda against the peoples of north and east Syria, including with NATO-chief Stoltenberg's support, but since it is Turkey doing the war of aggression, NATO's defense-clause can not be used and so every time the demand has been rejected before coming to a formal vote.

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@b9AcE

Ah thanks, seems like a complex issue as a lot of things are.

@zleap Not actually.
The legal reasons any State can send military to or take armed action in the territory of another are:
• Invited by the de jure and/or de facto territory holder (=no).
• By a UN Security Council (UNSC) mandate (=no).
• In direct self-defense to an ongoing armed attack, which must end once the attack claimed as being defended against stops being ongoing. In such cases they MUST be reported to the UNSC for further consideration of actions (=no).

The defense rationale can NOT be used for retaliation and can NOT be used with claims of preemption or similar because an opponent group is in the other's territory, as ruled long ago by the relevant court (ICJ).
There is no complexity, at all.

@zleap Of course!
I must have some use for reading all these conventions and going through all of those lectures... ;-D

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