Erdogan Announces New Major Military Operation In Northern Syria Against Kurds
Despite recent warnings not to do so from the United States, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday announced a fresh ‘special operation’ of the Turkish army to clear “terrorist elements” from northern Syria’s Tal Rifaat and Manbij areas. The operation hearkens back to when an initial major Turkish offensive kicked off in the region, which is on sovereign Syrian territory south of Turkey’s border, in 2019 which earned international outrage and condemnation.
“We are taking another step in establishing a 30-kilometer security zone along our southern border. We will clean up Tal Rifaat and Mambij,” Erdogan announced, saying that the operation will from there continue to other parts of northern Syria.
“We are moving to a new phase to create a 30 km deep safe zone,” Erdogan said further in making the announcement. “We will clear Tal Rifaat and Manbij from terrorists.”
And that’s when he seemed to poke the West over the ongoing row caused by Ankara’s refusal to admit Finland and Sweden into NATO: “Let’s see who will support us and who will stand against us,” he stressed….
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