Turkish Army Launches Operation in Syria's
Azaz to the East of Afrin - Reports
14:21 22.01.2018 (updated 14:54 22.01.2018)
On Saturday, the Turkish leadership announced a military
campaign in Syrian Kurdish-controlled Afrin, with the operation on the ground
starting the following day.
According to Anadolu news agency citing a military
source, the Turkish Armed Forces have started an operation in Azaz, located to
the east of Afrin in northern Syria.
The Turkish "Olive Branch" operation conducted
jointly with Free Syrian Army rebels against the Syrian Kurdish PKK and the YPG
was launched on Saturday with airstrikes and continued the following day with
the start of the campaign on the ground.
According to the Turkish authorities, the operation is
set to end swiftly. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed that his troops will
destroy the Kurdish militia in Syria, that have been supported by the United
States.
Earlier in the day, Anadolu reported that Turkish forces
have established control over 11 positions taken from Kurdish forces.
However, according to a representative of the
Syrian Kurdistan in Moscow, Rodi Osman, the Syrian Kurds forced Turkish
troops and Ankara-backed rebels to retreat
from their territory.
Syrian President Bashar Assad
has condemned the operation calling it a "brutal attack,"
while Moscow
has stated that US arms supplies to the Kurdish fighters have forced
Ankara to launch the operation.
Ankara has been mulling the possibility of an
offensive in Syria’s northern Kurdish-controlled Afrin following a
reported US plan to train Kurdish forces in Syria to patrol the
country's border with Turkey. The force is expected to be staffed
partly by the SDF, affiliated with the Kurdish People's Protection
Units (YPG), which Turkey believes to have ties with the Kurdistan
Workers Party (PKK), designated as a terrorist group in Turkey.
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