Erdogan continues his attacks in Syria despite the ceasefire
Moscow. March 2020. While the first fears in Europe about the seriousness of the COVID-19 begin, a ceasefire is reached for the city of Idlib, in the northwest of Syria, and the area most affected by jihadist terrorism.
After a six-hour meeting in the Kremiln, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Ergoan and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, seal a truce that took effect at midnight on March 6. A truce that has not been fulfilled and which has had multiple violations. The last one at the hands of the Turkish resident who, against what he had agreed with Putin, authorized the entry of a military convoy into the de-escalation zone in the north of Syria.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the military convoy entered the de-escalation zone from the Kafrlossin crossing, north of Idlib, on Monday night.
The convoy is made up of more than 20 trucks carrying logistical and military material, according to the Al-Ain news website, and is heading to the area where Erdogan has sent more than 5,000 vehicles, in addition to thousands of soldiers, since the beginning of the ceasefire. The total number of Turkish military deployed between Idlib and Aleppo, when there was supposed to be a break in this type of operation, now stands at 11,550 soldiers.
Already on 30 July, the Turkish Army and related factions carried out an artillery bombardment in the areas of Tal Tamr and Al-Taweelah, anchorages located in Al-Hasaka province in north-eastern Syria.
In addition to this dispatch of forces, Ankara-backed factions are already continuing to attack civilians and their property in the areas known as the "Fountain of Peace".
According to SOHR, members of the Turkish-backed faction "Ahrar Al-Sharqiya" arrived in the village of Ali Bagley, in the southern camp of Tal Abyad, to arrest a person for "dealing with the SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces)". Several villagers, the observatory says, tried to abort this operation and demonstrated against it. The members of the factions tried to disperse the demonstration and shot indiscriminately, wounding two people. These factions continue to violate the rights of citizens by robbing shops and homes and forcing neighbors to pay taxes for their welfare.
The conflict in Syria started in 2011 and reached its international scale with the participation of Russia in 2015 and Turkey in 2016, both countries being rivals on the Syrian chessboard, but carrying a cordial relationship out of Aleppo and Idlib.
The tension between the two factions increased extremely when an attack by the Syrian army, supported by Putin, hit a convoy of 34 Turkish soldiers and provoked a strong reaction from Erdogan.
