PKK terrorists burn forests in northern Syria

Hundreds of acres of forests in Syria have been set on fire by the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) organization over the past month in northern Syria, as a preemptive measure by the terrorists before the launch of Turkey’s Euphrates Sword operation in the PKK-occupied city of Afrin.

Over the past month, four separate arson attacks were carried out by PKK and PKK-affiliated Democratic Union Party (PYD) terrorists, three of which took place during the last 15 days.

Thousands of trees were set ablaze across hundreds of acres by PKK terrorists who receive logistical support from Afrin.

Terrorists have dug hidden passageways in the area, and despite constantly being destroyed by Turkish troops, PKK terrorists continue to dig more tunnels across the 65 kilometer border strip with Syria, which has been used for six years by refugees to cross to Turkey, but also to secure flow of drugs and arms to PKK terrorists.

Terrorists who receive training at PKK camps located in Kafar Jannah and Raji use smuggling routes pretending to be refugees to cross into Turkey as well.

Leftist terror organizations who operate in the Syrian coastal province of Latakia, in addition to intensifying the PKK shelling attacks of the locations in Turkey’s southern Hatay province, also provide support for the arsons.

Syrian intelligence agents, in cooperation with the “Syrian Resistance“ organization founded by terrorist Miraç Ural, provide logistical support to PKK terrorists in the regions of Hatay, Kırıkhan and İslahiye.

PKK terrorists are currently receiving training in camps located in Latakia’s al-Basit area, which are run by Syrian intelligence and a terror organization known as “Liwa İskenderun.”

PKK/PYD terrorists, in cooperation with members of the Syrian Resistance terror group, have carried out several arson attacks on Türkmen Mountain. In the past month, hundreds of forests were set ablaze in the Turkmen towns of Kulcuk, Toros, Karamanlı, Burcu Ayn Isa, Jumeiyrin and Shahroura.

The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the European Union and the United States.

The PKK has been conducting armed violence in the southeastern part of Turkey since 1984. More than 40,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the three-decade long conflict.