Photos show the underground tunnels of a PKK training camp in Syria now the group has been pushed back.
The Free Syrian Army and the Turkish military have been fighting the PKK, a Kurdish terror group calling for their own homeland, and have now taken over this site in the Afrin region of Aleppo.
Fighters had sheltered in the dug-out, with tools and a prayer mat left behind when they fled the area.
The tunnels were found near Bafilun mountain, taken as part of ‘Operation Olive Branch’ which was launched yesterday.
The aim of the operation was to secure the border and drive out Kurdish militant groups from Afrin. Over a dozen civilians are believed to have died from Turkish shelling in the operation.
Syrian Kurdish media say at least 13 civilians were killed in Turkish shelling on the town of Jindaris, as Turkish forces try to press their advances on the Kurdish-held Afrin enclave in northwest Syria.
The Hawar News Agency says another 3 civilians were killed in Turkish shelling near Rajo, also in Afrin, on Monday.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported 13 killed in Jindaris, including 2 children. It says at least 165 civilians have been killed by Turkish fire since Turkey launched its ‘Operation Olive Branch’.
Turkey and various Syrian opposition forces fighting alongside it have taken more than a quarter of the Afrin canton since operations began six weeks ago, according to the Observatory.
Turkey views the main Kurdish militia in Afrin as an extension of the Kurdish insurgency within its own borders.
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