Türkiye has again attacked targets in the Kurdish region of northeastern Syria. According to Kurdish sources, several power plants were affected.

Syrian Kurdish firefighters extinguish a fire at a power plant in Qamishli Photo: Delil Souleiman/afp

KAMISCHLI afp | Authorities in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northeastern Syria have accused Turkey of attacks on power plants and oil refineries there. Hundreds of towns and communities have been without electricity since Sunday, authorities said Monday. Consequently, since Friday at least six power plants have been hit by airstrikes. In the city of Kamishli, a factory was targeted twice on Monday.

Journalists watched as firefighters put out a large fire there. Another power plant was attacked in the region later on Monday, according to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has an extensive network of informants in Syria.

The representative of the authorities, Yasser al-Sulaiman, called on the US-led coalition against jihadists and Russia to “stop Turkish aggression against our territories and its people.”

Turkey said it carried out several airstrikes against Kurdish militia facilities in Syria and northern Iraq over the weekend. Among other things, military bases, weapons and gas facilities of the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the Kurdish YPG militia were attacked. The military said it was in response to an attack on a Turkish army base in northern Iraq that killed nine soldiers on Friday.

The PKK has been fighting the Turkish state since 1984 and is classified as a terrorist organization by Ankara and its Western allies. The YPG played an important role in the US-led fight against the Islamic State (IS) jihadist militia in Syria. Türkiye, on the other hand, sees it as a partner organization of the PKK.