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Turks ‘kill 80 Kurdish civilians in invasion’
YPG fighters accuse Ankara of ‘massacre’

by James Tweedie

SYRIAN Kurdish fighters accused Turkey of killing 40 civilians as its extremist allies pushed deeper into Aleppo province yesterday.

The incident was first reported by the Brtiain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which said Turkish shelling and air raids on two areas held by the Kurdish YPG militia.

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