Turkish strikes cause "significant damage" to Syrian oil facilities

Syrian Oil Minister Bassam Tohme announced today, Wednesday, that the Turkish air strikes ten days ago caused "great damage" to oil facilities, after they hit a gas plant and oil wells in a country that suffers mainly from a scarcity of fuel.

Ten days ago, the Turkish warplanes launched air strikes, which Ankara said targeted sites of Kurdish fighters in Syria, and has since threatened to launch a ground attack against their areas of control.

The Syrian Democratic Forces, led by the Kurdish fighters, accused Ankara of deliberately targeting the "infrastructure".

Tohme said during an interview with the Syrian state television, "The brutal Turkish aggression against northern Syria has caused great damage to the oil facilities," noting that the bombing targeted a gas plant, which led to its cessation of production, after "it was producing 150 tons of domestic gas, and about One million cubic meters of natural gas used by a power station that supplies the province of Al-Hasakah (northeast) with electricity.

He pointed out that oil stations were also damaged and "many wells were burned," which led to "significant environmental pollution due to tank explosions."

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