https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/12/worlds-eyes-gaza-turkey-attacks
AMUDE/QAMISHLI, Syria — The Turkish drone hung silently in the late night sky, shining its light on a nameless hamlet close to a Russian military base south of Amude. The Turks usually targeted vehicles carrying military personnel. But they were ordinary people and had no reason to worry, thought Ronak Mohammed as she, her husband, Munir, and her brother Ciwan piled into the family car. Within minutes, the white Hyundai erupted in flames, shuddering violently as shrapnel and broken glass flew everywhere.
"The drone stayed there for an hour and a half after it dropped its bomb," Mohammed recalled, as she sat stricken on the floor of her family home in Amude, her face swathed in bandages and her eyes filled with fear. Munir, who was driving, also survived the Nov. 23 drone strike with minor injuries. The couple had been married for a month. However, 35-year-old Ciwan, who sat in the passenger seat, succumbed to his wounds in the hospital, adding to the swelling list of civilians who have died in Turkey's ongoing military campaign against Kurdish-controlled northeastern Syria. "Why did they do this?" she asked.
AMUDE/QAMISHLI, Syria — The Turkish drone hung silently in the late night sky, shining its light on a nameless hamlet close to a Russian military base south of Amude. The Turks usually targeted vehicles carrying military personnel. But they were ordinary people and had no reason to worry, thought Ronak Mohammed as she, her husband, Munir, and her brother Ciwan piled into the family car. Within minutes, the white Hyundai erupted in flames, shuddering violently as shrapnel and broken glass flew everywhere.
"The drone stayed there for an hour and a half after it dropped its bomb," Mohammed recalled, as she sat stricken on the floor of her family home in Amude, her face swathed in bandages and her eyes filled with fear. Munir, who was driving, also survived the Nov. 23 drone strike with minor injuries. The couple had been married for a month. However, 35-year-old Ciwan, who sat in the passenger seat, succumbed to his wounds in the hospital, adding to the swelling list of civilians who have died in Turkey's ongoing military campaign against Kurdish-controlled northeastern Syria. "Why did they do this?" she asked.
