{"id":1444626,"date":"2022-04-18T17:30:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T21:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1444626"},"modified":"2022-04-18T17:30:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T21:30:37","slug":"report-nato-member-turkey-bombing-near-russian-bases-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-nato-member-turkey-bombing-near-russian-bases-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: NATO Member Turkey Bombing near Russian Bases in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-nato-member-turkey-bombing-near-russian-bases-in-syria%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1444626&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237857703-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>Turkish forces operating in Syria reportedly shelled two villages on Sunday, coming perilously close to positions held by Russian troops. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Turkey is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which is currently in a state of highly elevated tensions with Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Turkey launched an incursion into Syria named <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/11\/8\/turkeys-operation-peace-spring-in-northern-syria-one-month-on\"><span>Operation Peace Spring<\/span><\/a><span> in 2019, intended to neutralize fighters from the Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party (PKK), a Kurdish separatist organization Islamist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan considers a major national security threat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Russian forces, on the other hand, are in Syria at the invitation of its dictator, Bashar Assad. Russian intervention helped Assad survive a brutal ten-year civil war and remain in power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last week, Russian leader Vladimir Putin reportedly\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/10\/alexander-dvornikov-russian-general-who-helped-turn-tide-of-syrian-war\"><span>placed<\/span><\/a><span> Gen. Aleksandr Dvornikov, commander of Russia\u2019s Syrian intervention, in charge of the Ukraine invasion. Thousands of Russian-trained Syrian fighters have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/world\/syrian-fighters-ready-to-join-next-phase-of-ukraine-war-1.5865253\"><span>reportedly<\/span><\/a><span> volunteered to fight for Moscow in Ukraine, although international observers say only a small portion of them have made it to the battlefield so far.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on Sunday <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.syriahr.com\/en\/247574\/\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span>\u00a0that Turkish forces shelled civilian areas around the villages of Qobor al-Karajna and Al-Shaikh Ali, forcing many residents to flee the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>SOHR activists said the Turkish shelling \u201cexpanded to positions near the Russian base in Al-Mabaker,\u201d and a Turkish drone flew through the area before targeting a checkpoint manned by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led militia opposed to the Assad regime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kurdistan24.net\/en\/story\/28025-Assyrian-fighter-killed-in-Turkish-shelling-in-northeast-Syria:-SDF%C2%A0\"><span>Kurdistan24<\/span><\/a><span> news service, an Assyrian fighter aligned with the SDF was killed in the Turkish attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMany Christian villages in Tal Tamir were shelled yesterday, as they were preparing to celebrate Easter,\u201d said a statement from the SDF. More shelling in the area was reported on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Turkey views virtually all armed Kurdish groups in Syria as allies of the PKK, including militias that partnered with the United States and Europe against the Islamic State, but Turkey is attempting to cultivate a better relationship with the Kurds of Iraq.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>To that end, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysabah.com\/politics\/diplomacy\/erdogan-receives-krgs-barzani-for-talks\/\"><span>met with<\/span><\/a><span> Prime Minister Masrour Barzani of Iraq\u2019s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Istanbul on Friday. Among the topics they discussed was cooperation in counter-terrorism, which in Turkey\u2019s case means <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudaw.net\/english\/kurdistan\/150420222\"><span>periodically bombing<\/span><\/a><span> PKK positions along the KRG\u2019s borders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Barzani\u2019s government has recently blamed the PKK for prompting Turkey\u2019s attacks, to the detriment of all Kurds in the region, and chastised PKK leaders for rejecting the KRG\u2019s authority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHundreds of villages have been evacuated, the people have become homeless. It was the Kurdistan region that was harmed in this process. Therefore the PKK\u2019s aim is to weaken the Kurdistan region,\u201d KRG spokesman Jotiar Adil <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysabah.com\/politics\/war-on-terror\/pkk-presence-reason-for-turkish-operations-krg-speaker-says\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> in February, even as the Iraqi central government protested Turkey\u2019s attacks on PKK positions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish forces operating in Syria reportedly shelled two villages on Sunday, coming perilously close to positions held by Russian troops. 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