Syrian Kurdish authorities ask the UN and the international coalition for “action” to avoid a “tragedy”

MADRID Jan. 8 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The autonomous Kurdish authorities in the north and northeast of Syria have asked the international coalition – led by the United States – this Tuesday for “urgent actions” to avoid a “tragedy”, within the framework of the continuous bombings by pro-Turkish forces. against the Tishrin dam, a strategic point in the northern part of the country.

The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) has denounced that the aforementioned dam “has been the subject of continuous artillery bombardment by the Turkish occupation state and its mercenaries” for more than a month, “which threatens to provoke a humanitarian catastrophe.”

“We ask the UN and the international coalition to take urgent measures to avoid a greater tragedy. (…) Taking the dam out of service means flooding hundreds of villages and thousands of agricultural lands, and destroying the lives of millions of people throughout along the Euphrates River until reaching Iraq,” reads a statement published on his profile on the social network X.

Thus, it has been considered “urgent to intervene to protect lives and infrastructure, while they have called on the population to participate during Wednesday in a protest at the dam to “denounce the systematic bombing that threatens human lives and destroys infrastructure.” .

In fact, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have indicated through their Telegram channel that their militiamen have shot down a Turkish drone in the Tishrin press area, without any casualties or damage being reported.

During the day, the Turkish Government warned that an offensive will be carried out in northeastern Syria against the Syrian Kurdish militia People’s Protection Units (YPG) – integrated into the SDF – if its members are not expelled from the country. of the group, linked to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), considered terrorist by Ankara.

Since the fall of Bashar al Assad’s regime, Ankara has asked the new Syrian authorities to take charge of this front. The Turkish Foreign Minister, Hakan Fidan, predicted that he will not recognize either the YPG or the so-called Kurdish administration of northeastern Syria, Rojava, within the framework of the establishment of a new power structure in the neighboring country.