Thousands of people on Monday attended the funeral ceremony of 11 people killed by a Turkish airstrike in Syria.
Family members, relatives, and a large number of people carried the coffins of those who died from a hospital to a funeral square, and finally to a cemetery.
Syrian Democratic Forces spokesperson, Farhad Shami, said two villages heavily populated with displaced people were under Turkish bombardment.
He said the strikes resulted in 11 civilian deaths and destroyed a hospital, a power plant and grain silos.
The Turkish ministry of defence has claimed that a total of 89 targets were destroyed and a "large number" of what it designated "terrorists" were killed in strikes that ranged from Tall Rifat in northwest Syria to the Qandil mountains in Iraq's northeast.
The airstrikes came after a bomb rocked a bustling avenue in the heart of Istanbul on November 13, killing six people and wounding over 80 others.
Turkish authorities blamed the attack on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and its Syrian affiliate the Syrian People’s Protection Units, or YPG.
The Kurdish militant groups have, however, denied involvement.
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