Turkey condemns Syrian regime’s refugee camp attack

ANKARA

Turkish Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the Syrian regime’s recent airstrike on a refugee camp near the Turkish border that left at least 27 killed.

In a statement released Friday, the ministry said that Thursday’s attack “is a new and very serious indication that the Syrian regime did not take seriously at all the efforts toward cessation of hostilities and advancement of the political process.”

It is essential for countries that support the Syrian regime, “especially Russia” to change its attitude of “exonerating” and “trying to make excuses” for the regime, which again directly targeted civilians in its latest attack, the statement added.

The ministry offered condolences to the families of those killed and a speedy recovery to those injured in the attack “that represents a new and an unacceptable example of a repeatedly breach of international humanitarian law by the regime.”

At least 27 people, including women and children, were killed Thursday when a regime warplane targeted a refugee camp near the Syrian town of Sarmada in the Idlib province, according to reports from a nearby local field hospital.