Hopefully more Turkish troops will die in Syria today.
I don’t know the outcome from yesterday, but I was told late yesterday afternoon that there were heavy clashes all around Efrin (district not town). So Turkey was trying hard to invade from multiple points.
It has not been bloodless for any involved.
Turkey says there have been nearly a thousand “terrorists” killed by them. YPG strongly disputes that number.
“Civilian casualties rises to 127 in Afrin” (168 civilians injured) (Friday, 2 Feb 2018, 13:06)
https://anfenglish.com/rojava/civilian-casualties-rise-to-127-in-afrin-24651
“473 Turkish soldiers and gang members killed in Afrin in one week” (Thursday, 1 Feb 2018, 15:09)
“Footage of female fighters destroying Turkish tank”
https://anfenglish.com/rojava/footage-of-female-fighters-destroying-turkish-tank-24684
Little accurate information is in Western Press, but this is not a bloodless operation. The Turkish air force has done great damage to villages and even downtown Efrin.
Most of the fighting is still concentrated along the outside edges of Efrin district. Turkey has penetrated the border by leveling villages with Air Strikes and Tank and artillery assaults.
Here are some threads on Twitter discussing the butchery of the FSA forces (directed by Turkey) including ISIS and al Qaeda components:
Mutlu Civiroglu @mutludc
https://twitter.com/mutludc/status/959123765929107456
YPJ fighter Barin Kobani whose body was mutilated by Turkish-backed forces in Qurna village of Bilbil in #Afrin
Rojava @AzadiRojava
https://twitter.com/AzadiRojava/status/959150351894147072
YPJ heroine Barîn Kobanê defended her homeland Efrîn from invading Al Qaeda Mercenaries & your ally Turkey. They got her. They mutilated & dismembered her body. Don’t condone these warcrimes. Break your silence @theresa_may @EmmanuelMacron @sigmargabriel @HalbeZijlstra
Jenan Moussa @jenanmoussa
https://twitter.com/jenanmoussa/status/959151218680631297
There’s also another video going viral which is too graphic to share. But I’ll try to describe it. Basically Syrian rebels near Afrin killed a Kurdish female fighter, took off her clothes, chopped off her breasts, stepped on her body &discussed whether she was beautiful or not.
Zohra Cizîr @Z_Cizir
https://twitter.com/Z_Cizir/status/959100672561090560
Which f*cking bastard called Avesta Xebur, who carried out an action of self-sacrifice against Turkish forces and its jihadi allies, a suicide-bomber??? Watch this video, see what Turkey and its f*cking allies do, when they catch you alive!
https://twitter.com/Cakila_/status/959094435668811777
Cahida Dêrsim @dersi4m
https://twitter.com/dersi4m/status/959127482724122625
According to ANHA sources Turkish army & it’s proxies have killed 4 civilians in the village Elbiske of Rajo district. According to the source on the ground the villagers were caught by the jihadists, locked up in a house and burnt to death #Afrin