ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced early Wednesday that one of their positions in Aleppo's Maskana had been targeted by a Turkish Bayraktar drone, marking the second such attack in the same day.

"In the context of the ongoing escalation, a Turkish Bayraktar drone targeted a military point belonging to our forces in the city of Maskana without causing any casualties," the Kurdish-led force said in a statement.

The SDF said that "this is the second such attack" of the day, "reflecting a dangerous and continuous escalation in the region."

The statement came minutes after the Kurdish-led force announced another Bayraktar UAV hitting one of their positions in a village near Tabqa. 

Turkish intervention has been heavily speculated in the Kurdish-led forces' recent skirmishes with Damascus-affiliated factions around Aleppo.

Photos circulating on social media purportedly showed vehicles with Turkish license plates featuring on the side of the Syrian government's factions against the Kurdish-led forces during a Damascus operation in Aleppo's Kurdish-majority Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyeh neighborhoods.

The campaign in the two Aleppo neighborhoods saw factions affiliated with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa's government target Kurdish-led internal security forces (Asayish), aiming to drive them out of the area. The operation saw hundreds of casualties and over 150,000 people displaced from their homes.

Farhad Shami, head of SDF's media center, had already said that the attack on Tabqa was "the third attack by Turkish UAVs within one week."

At the height of tensions in Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyeh on Saturday, SDF announced that they had been targeted by a Turkish Akinci drone, dubbing the development a confirmation of Turkish intervention in Syria. 

Prior to SDF's Saturday statement, Aleppo's Kurdish-led Asayish said that Sheikh Maqsoud's Khalid Fajr hospital, a vital healthcare center in the neighborhood, had come under heavy bombardment by Turkish Bayraktar drones.

Turkey views the People's Protection Units (YPG), the backbone of the SDF's leadership, as inextricably linked to its domestic foe Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), and therefore sees the SDF as the PKK's Syrian offshoot.

Turkey's pro-Kurdish People's Equality and Equity party (DEM Party) on Sunday accused the Turkish Ministry of National Security of using "rhetoric that escalates tension," calling on the ministry to cease such language "immediately". The party also accused Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan of using a "language of conflict" regarding the developments.

Fidan on Saturday told Turkey's state broadcaster TRT, that the SDF “has no chance of achieving anything through dialogue without force or the threat of force,” adding that “it will either face force or the threat of using force."