The opposing UK-based Syrian Observatory mentioned that the Turkish army launched an artillery attack against the sites of the Kurdish popular committees in Aazza in Aleppo countryside in the few past days.
It was not clear why it launched the shelling, which took place after the Kurdish fighters, backed by Russian bombing raids, drove Syrian rebels from a former military air base near the Turkish border.
Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP that Turkish shelling struck areas of Aleppo, including Minnigh, recently taken by the YPG forces from Islamist rebels.
The shelling came shortly after Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said Ankara would, if necessary, take military action against the PYD.
A YPG source told AFP that the Turkish shelling targeted the strategic Minnigh military airport, which Kurdish forces retook on Feb. 10.
"We can if necessary take the same measures in Syria as we took in Iraq and Kandil," Davutoğlu said in a televised speech.
The Turkish premier was referring to the bombing campaign last year against PKK targets in northern Iraq on their Kandil mountain stronghold...
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13/2/16
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