Turkey says Kurdish administration is to blame for water crisis in northeast Syria
BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:35 P.M.) – The Turkish Anadolu Agency published a detailed explanation in which it said that the Syrian government narrative about the water crisis in Al-Hasakah is incorrect.
The state-owned agency said that all reports blaming Turkey for cutting off the water to Al-Hasakah are wrong, claiming that they have details about the real perpetrators.
The agency denied all these accusations against the Turkish government, stressing that the real perpetrator is “the Autonomous Administration controlled by terrorist organizations affiliated with the PKK organization.”
The agency indicated that the Autonomous Administration did not allow the return of electricity to the Syrian city of Ras al-Ain in the northern countryside of Al-Haskah until Saturday, August 22nd.