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The media office-Afrin of the Kurdish Democratic Unity Party in Syria (Yekiti) yesterday, Tuesday, issued a statement regarding the terrorist bombing at the entrance of the city market in Afrin, holding the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood militants the responsible for it, since Afrin had not previously witnessed any of these terrorist actions, until it was occupied on March 18, 2018, and became a hotbed for terrorists and their supporters.
The office said: “This afternoon, a booby-trapped liquid fuel tank truck was detonated in the city of Afrin, in front of the city market on Raju Street, which resulted in more than / 40 / deaths and approximately 50 injured with various burns and wounds, mostly civilians, including women and children. Some of them are indigenous, as well as major damage to shops, homes and some cars near the explosion site. Media and social media pages reported shocking images and scenes of the bombing, as well as burning fires, charred bodies and destruction.
It continued: “Immediately after the blast, the crowd of armed men rushed to the site to steal the contents of the nearby shops and what is left in the streets. Then to dispute and fight and shoot in the air, despite the horror of the tragedy.”
“The Turkish Ministry of Defense and some media outlets of the so-called opposition have rushed to accuse the YPG or the SDF of being behind the operation, without being assigned to investigate and search for evidence, and even to cover active criminals, at a time when it is known The “Afrin Liberation Forces” targets the Turkish army and its mercenaries in the region and officially declares its operations and does not target civilians, while this truck bombing as a terrorist act and organized crime bears the hallmarks of takfiri organizations or mercenary militias and the Justice and Development Government-Turkey has been its first sponsor on the Syrian scene since 2011.
the statement also pointed out that, over two years of chaos, dozens of explosions occurred, and the Turkish occupation authorities did not reveal or punish the perpetrators of one of them, so they do not intentionally take measures to ensure safety and stability, to keep the region in a lasting exhaustion.
The statement stressed that “No safety or stability, it is unbearable hell, the situation in the Afrin region under the Turkish occupation and the spread of extremist terrorist militias affiliated with the Syrian-Brotherhood coalition, bombings and clashes between militias, torture and intentional killing, armed robbery, looting, ransom, royalties and appropriation of Property, kidnapping, arbitrary arrests, destruction of vegetation, destruction and theft of cultural property, forced displacement, resettlement and demographic change … etc., a list and a succession of violations and described crimes, and today’s bombing is only a part of it.
The statement concluded by saying: “The honorable Kurds and patriots strongly condemn this fascist terrorist act, which is an organized crime against humanity, and Turkey bears responsibility for it as an occupying country to the Afrin region from which it must be freed from terrorist mercenaries, and returns to Syrian sovereignty and the management of its people.”
In turn, the Kurdish National Alliance in Syria, made up of about 5 parties, issued a statement saying: “Today, Tuesday, April 28, a market in the city of Afrin occupied by Turkish forces and their mercenaries was exposed to a terrorist bombing that resulted in dozens of civilian casualties.”
it continued: “This bombing comes in light of Turkey’s persistence in its support of extremist terrorist organizations in implementing its expansionist and racist agendas that target the Kurdish people as a whole and its just cause in Syria, and its occupation of the Kurdish regions in Syria and its dependence on these organizations gave way to terrorist penetration in all regions, which facilitates carrying out such cowardly and inhumane acts with Turkish support and care.
“Also, this terrorist act came in conjunction with the Turkish forces targeting a point for the Asayish forces in the city of Kobani, in violation of the understandings concluded between them and America and Russia as two guarantor countries, to reflect the Turkish efforts to create chaos and destruction in the region, and an attempt to stick the charges to justify its plans.” .
The coalition said: “We are in the Kurdish National Alliance in Syria (HEVBENDÎ) while we condemn this cowardly terrorist act by targeting civilians and Turkey’s violation of the armistice concluded with the guarantor countries, we call on the international community, the guarantor states and the international coalition forces to act swiftly to end the Turkish occupation of all areas of the north The Syrian government, in Afrin, Sere Kanieh, Gre Sppi, eliminating terrorist organizations, and embarking on implementing the UN resolutions concerned with finding a comprehensive political solution to the Syrian crisis.
The statement concluded by stressing the “uselessness of any proposed solutions in the absence of a real representation of the various national components” national, religious and political “, foremost of which are the Kurdish people, which requires us, as a Kurdish political movement in Syria, to work with a high sense of historical responsibility to form a comprehensive Kurdish political reference, representing aspirations The Kurdish people in a democratic, pluralist, decentralized country.
