Turkey has retaliated to a bomb blast in Istiklal, Istanbul last week, which they blamed on Kurdish militants by launching Operation Claw, which has carried out deadly strikes on Syria and Iraq.
Turkey considers the PKK a terrorist group and says the YPG, which forms the backbone of the SDF, is a wing of the PKK.
Shelters, tunnels and ammunition depots in Qandil, Asos and Hakurk in Iraq and Kobani, Tal Rifat, Cizire and Derik in Syria were destroyed, the ministry said.The SDF, which said it would retaliate for the strikes, said the attacks had destroyed infrastructure including grain silos, a power station and a hospital.Farhad Shami, head of the SDF media centre, wrote on Twitter that 11 civilians, including a journalist, had been killed.
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack in Istanbul last Sunday, which injured 80 people.Earlier in the week a Turkish official said Ankara planned to pursue targets in northern Syria after it completed a cross-border operation against PKK militants in Iraq. Turkey has conducted three incursions so far into northern Syria against the YPG militia, with President Tayyip Erdogan previously saying Turkey could conduct another operation against them.
Ankara has also escalated drone strikes in Syria in recent months, killing a number of key SDF officials.The PKK - which the EU and US also consider a terrorist organisation - has led an insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984.The US allied with the YPG in the fight against Islamic State in Syria, causing a rift with NATO ally Turkey.
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