MESOP WATCH: Turkmen Militias Shell Sheikh Maqsoud Neighbourhood in Aleppo / The militias is claiming that the attack is in revenge for the Istanbul bombings

Basnews English –  14 April 2016 – WATCH: Turkmen Militias Shell Sheikh Maqsoud Neighbourhood in Aleppo –  Syrian Turkmen opposition forces fired several rockets against the Kurdish Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood of Aleppo on Wednesday. In a footage circulating on social media, a group of Turkmen militias appear preparing rockets for an attack against Shikh Maqsoud neighbourhood of Aleppo in the north of Syria. Slogans painted on the rockets in Turkish read as “This is in revenge for the death of our brothers in Istanbul.”

The slogan is apparently referring to previous blasts in Istanbul for which the Kurdish Freedom Hawks (TAK) claimed responsibility.  Casualties have not been confirmed by the Syrian Kurdish forces who are in control of the neighbourhood.Additionally, a martial music is playing during the footage which is believed to refer to the Ottoman Empire era. Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood is of strategic importance as the only route connecting Aleppo to the Turkish borders passes through this neighbourhood. www.mesop.de