Syriac Military Council spokesman denounces continued Turkish aggression, remembers martyrs’ second anniversary

TEL TAMR, Syria — Spokesman for the Syriac Military Council (Mawthbo Folhoyo Suryoyo, MFS) Matay Hanna declared Turkish media circulations full of allegations and manipulations about a potential new military operation in North and East Syria, failed because the Turks were unable to get approval from powerful actors and because of the high readiness of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the MFS, which is a co-founder of the SDF.

“After this failure, Turkey deliberately launched provocative and intimidating operations against our people on the lines of contact, such as bombing civilian houses and property, using sniper weapons to kill farmers and violating the ceasefire agreement,” The MFS spokesman proclaimed. “The Syriac Military Council is committed to self-restraint and the ceasefire agreement, but are ready for any Turkish violations.”

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Matay Hanna touched on the recent Turkish crime committed in the al-Hilaliya neighborhood in the city of Zalin (Qamishli). A Turkish drone destroyed a car, killing three civilians. He remembered the MFS fighters who martyred on 12 November, 2019, during their fight against the Turkish forces in Rish Ayno (Ras al-Ayn), stressing that the MFS will keep following the path of its martyrs to liberate the occupied lands and return the displaced people to their homes.

Hanna offered his deepest condolences to the families of the military and civilian martyrs killed by the Turkish Army and its proxies.

The Syriac Military Council is mobilized in the Khabur Region of North and East Syria. The MFS has shown its capabilities in its military resistance, and its ability to liberate the villages of the Syriac (Aramean–Assyrian–Chaldean) people from the control of the Islamic State in 2015, as well as its continuous resistance against the Turkish occupation since October 2019 until today.

Attempts to make the area of the Khabur Region a separate canton for the Suraye people have so far remained unsuccessful.