UPDATED: Turkey targeted 18 SDF positions in northern Syria

[TomSea]

In this case, SDF means our guys, means Kurdish troops as reported in other media, I will place links after excerpt. Forget Russia for a moment, if Turkey is our ally, this is more serious news to me:

UPDATED: Turkey targeted 18 SDF positions in northern Syria

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Turkish forces struck 18 Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) targets Wednesday night.

Turkish jets and artillery are still firing on Syrian SDF and Kurdish positions, AP reported Thursday morning, citing a Syrian Kurdish leader who said no more than 10 fighters had been killed in the attacks.

Turkish press had reported that the military claimed to have killed between 160 and 200 fighters.

The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) reported on Twitter that Turkish planes had carried out at least 14 airstrikes, bombing positions of the Jaish al-Thuwar, a member of the SDF, near the border of Efrin, the western-most canton of the Rojava, the self-autonomous region of northern Syria.

The reports were corroborated by pro-Turkish media on Thursday morning. Yeni Safak reported that Turkey had targeted 18 “PYD/PKK” positions as part of its Euphrates Shield operation in northwestern Syria.

Read More At: http://rudaw.net/mobile/english/middleeast/syria/20102016

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-kurds-idUSKCN12K0ER

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/turkish-airstrikes-kurdish-ypg-militia_us_580887f5e4b0180a36e95c06?section=

http://www.businessinsider.com/turkish-jets-syria-air-strikes-2016-10

[TomSea]

Syrian Kurds say Turkish strikes kill 10 Kurdish fighters, wounds 20
Posted on October 20, 2016 by Editorial Staff in Kurdistan

BEIRUT,— A senior commander of the main Syria Kurdish militia, which has been supported by the United States, confirmed Turkish jets and artillery were still attacking his forces north of Aleppo, but disputed the casualty count saying no more than 10 of his fighters were killed so far.

Read More At: http://ekurd.net/syria-kurds-turkish-airstrikes-2016-10-20

[Fishrrman]

"Forget Russia for a moment, if Turkey is our ally..."

NO islamic nation can truly be an "ally" of The West.

Some of them may be useful to us for some circumstances, perhaps, but at their cores, they are "fundamentally" opposed to that which The West represents.

The underlying reason?
dar al-islam v. dar al-harb.