Girê Spî (Tel Abyad) residents began to return to Turkey after the opening of Akçakale Border Gate. Arab tribe leaders visited the YPG Headquarters in Girê Spî and thanked the fighters here. The bordergate was closed after the liberation of Girê Spî by YPJ-YPG and Burkan El Firat forces for minesweeping activities.

After the clearance of ISIS landmines, Turkey closed the border this time and the pro-AKP media began to accuse YPG of closing the border gate and carrying out ethnic cleansing. YPG sources responded that it was the Turkish state that had closed the border after the crossing of 2 thousands civilians back to Girê Spî last week. Akçakale Border Gate was reopened today and nearly 1,500 people returned to their homes.

'NOBODY WILL BE ABLE TO PIT PEOPLES AGAINST ONE ANOTHER'

More than 20 Arab tribe leaders from Mebruqa, Siluk, Girê Spî and Eyn-El İs visited the YPG Headquarters in Girê Spî today. YPG-YPJ fighters and other forces of freedom listened to the details of ISIS cruelty before the town’s liberation, and the tribe leaders thanked the fighters for their operation. Tribe leaders emphasized the importance of Arab, Kurdish and Turkmen peoples’ will to coexist, and said that nobody would be able to pit peoples against one another.