2023-12-29 04:45:24
In the shadow of the Gaza conflict, Turkish President Erdoğan has launched massive attacks in northern Syria.
Sozdar Ali looks tired. “Now in the afternoon my children are finally sleeping,” she says in a telephone conversation with the “Presse”. “But it’s difficult at night. The children are stressed and can’t sleep because of the loud explosions.” Sozdar Ali lives in Qamishli in northern Syria. And the city and its surroundings have been the target of heavy Turkish air strikes in recent days. “The situation here is terrible,” complains the woman who works as a spokeswoman for the Kurdish Red Crescent. “The psychological situation of the people here is very bad. The children in particular suffer.”
The world is currently watching the war between Israel and Hamas and the devastating situation in the Gaza Strip with horror. But in the shadow of this conflict, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is waging his own war – against the self-government that Kurds have established with Arabs and other groups in northern Syria. The Turkish armed forces have been launching repeated attacks here for years and are occupying parts of the area together with allied Islamist militias. But now the conflict has escalated – with a new wave of Turkish air strikes hitting the region around Christmas. “A hospital in the city of Kobane was also bombed,” says Sozdar Ali. “The only oxygen production factory in Qamishli was also hit. She had taken care of the hospitals here,” says the spokeswoman for the Kurdish Red Crescent.
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