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According to the Turkish president, Ankara will continue to take decisive action until full stability is established along the southern borders.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to launch a new military operation against the Kurds / photo REUTERS
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to launch a new military operation if Kurdish forces do not withdraw from northern Syria.
He said this at the opening ceremony of the Reikhanli reservoir in the southern province of Hatay, bordering Syria, Anadolu reports.
“The terrorist-controlled regions in Syria must be liberated as promised. Otherwise, Turkey will do it itself,” Erdogan said.
He said that Turkey will continue to take decisive action until full stability is established along its southern borders.
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Erdogan stressed that Turkey will not accept a single scenario that could lead to another humanitarian tragedy in Idlib.
“Countries that do not speak a word about terrorist organizations and their sponsors, when it comes to Turkey, forget all moral principles, rights and laws. However, this cannot make us deviate from our path,” Erdogan said.
Turkish military operations in northern Syria
- In March 2020, Ankara launched an offensive against the Syrian army, dubbed Operation Spring Shield.
- In October 2019, Turkey launched the Spring of Peace military operation in northeast Syria, which is being carried out in areas of Syria east of the Euphrates River against Syrian Kurds. Following negotiations with the United States, Turkey agreed to end the offensive in northern Syria for 5 days to allow Kurdish rebels to leave the border areas.
- Erdogan said Syrian Kurds should evacuate the entire stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border east from the Euphrates River to the Iraqi border, which is nearly 440 kilometers long. But the US representative noted that the agreement refers to a 120-kilometer section of the border. Erdogan’s spokesman confirmed that the agreements refer to a 120-kilometer section, but Ankara wants more territory for a “security zone”.
- After its inception, US troops in Syria left the areas adjacent to the Turkish border, and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s troops, supported by Russia, entered part of the Kurdish-controlled areas.
- On October 23, Turkey announced the end of the military operation in northern Syria.
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