Ankara, August 5: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has on Sunday renewed his pledge to continue military operations at cross-border region into northeastern Syria remove Kurdish fighters residing near its border.
While delivering a speech on Sunday in Bursa during the opening ceremony of motorway, Erdogan said the United States and Russia have been conveyed about the planned military operation, but however, offer no information when would the offensive begin, according to Al-Jazeera.
Turkey had in the past cautioned of implementing military tasks east of the Euphrates River, however, put them on hold in the wake of concurring with the US to make a safe zone inside northeastern outskirt of Syria with Turkey that would be cleared of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) volunteer army.
Be that as it may, Ankara has blamed Washington for slowing down advancement on setting up the protected zone and has requested it cut off its relations with the YPG.
The gathering was Washington’s primary partner on the ground in Syria during the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS), however, Turkey considers it to be a “terrorist association” aligned with the banned Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK).
Turkey had in the past cautioned of doing military tasks east of the Euphrates River, yet put them on hold in the wake of concurring with the US to make a sheltered zone inside Syria’s northeastern fringe with Turkey that would be cleared of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) volunteer army.
In any case, Ankara has blamed Washington for slowing down advancement on setting up the sheltered zone and has requested it cut off its relations with the YPG.
“We entered Afrin, Jarablus, and Al-Bab. Now we will enter the east of the Euphrates,” Erdogan said in the city of Bursa.
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