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Turkey shells Syria's Afrin region, minister says operation has begun

Any one can translate this! Is that true that the operation of Syrian Interim Goverment also includes Manbij?

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First of all Euphrates shield was against isis, Secondly Turkey isnt going after Kurds, its going after PKK affiliates in Syria who already did terrorist attacks inside Turkey before, do you expect Turkey to sit idly when pkk offshots start carving lands out of Syria by forcefully displacing Arabs and Turkmens?
As if ypg are some saints. give me a break.

USA supports PKK
Any one can translate this! Is that true that the operation of Syrian Interim Goverment also includes Manbij?

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Correct they did include manbij in the message . I think they are tricking pkk to force them to stop sending reinforcement to afrin from eastern Syria.
 
USA supports PKK

Correct they did include manbij in the message . I think they are tricking pkk to force them to stop sending reinforcement to afrin from eastern Syria.

Thanks. I’m in same opinion with you.
 
ension rises as Turkey sends troops to YPG stronghold
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The US has urged Turkey to use restraint in its ongoing military operation in northern Syria as Turkish ground forces pressed ahead against the Syrian Kurdish group YPG in the enclave of Afrin.

Washington considers the YPG its closest ally in Syria, viewing it as the most effective ground force in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group.

Heather Nauert, spokeswoman for the US State Department, said on Sunday that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spoke with his Turkish and Russian counterparts on the phone and called against an escalation in fighting in northern Syria.

"We urge Turkey to exercise restraint and ensure that its military operations remain limited in scope and duration and scrupulous to avoid civilian casualties," said Nauert.

The statement on Sunday came just hours after Turkey said its ground troops had crossed into northern Syria.

Ankara considers Syria's Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed wing, the YPG, "terrorist groups" with ties to the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has waged a decades-long fight inside Turkey.

It fears the establishment of a Kurdish corridor along its border.

Speaking in Istanbul earlier on Sunday, Binali Yildirim, Turkey's prime minister, said Turkish forces had crossed into the YPG-controlled region in Syria at 08:05 GMT from the Turkish village of Gulbaba.

He said Turkey intended to establish a 30km "safe zone" in Afrin.

"Throughout the day we've heard the sound of jets in the sky, intense artillery and machine gun fire," Al Jazeera's Stefanie Dekker, reporting from the Turkey-Syria border, said.

The Turkish army has said it is targeting only "terrorist" positions and "utmost importance" was being given to not harm civilians.

'Well-trained' force
According to estimates, there are between 8,000 to 10,000 Kurdish YPG fighters in the Afrin area.

"Turkey says it will continue its operation until it has pushed the YPG away from its borders," our correspondent said.

No one knows how long this will take or what the implications may be.

"The YPG are extremely well trained. They know the terrain in Afrin but Turkey has superiority in the skies and that is a huge advantage."

How will new front in Syria war impact US-Turkey ties?
Reacting to Turkey's ground advance into Syria, France called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council.

"Ghouta, Idlib, Afrin - France asks for an urgent meeting of the Security Council," Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French foreign minister, said on Twitter on Sunday.

Le Drian said he had talked to his Turkish counterpart in the day and called for a complete ceasefire in Syria.

France's request for the emergency meeting comes one day after the Turkish operation against the YPG began.

On Saturday, Turkish jets carried out air strikes against targets in Afrin.

Russia, which controls the airspace over Afrin, withdrew hundreds of its soldiers deployed near the city before Turkey's operation began.

Several diplomats and mission chiefs of the permanent members of Security Council - the US, Russia, the UK, France and China - were brought up to speed on the developments in Afrin.

Erdogan's warning
For his part, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday he hoped the military operation will be completed "in a very short time".

But Erdogan also warned pro-Kurdish opposition supporters in Turkey not to hold protests.

"Know that if you go out on the streets, authorities are on your necks," he told thousands of supporters in Bursa.

WATCH: Syria - Kurdish civilians fear threat of Turkey offensive (2:09)


"This is a national struggle and we will crush anyone who opposes our national struggle."

Earlier, Anadolu news agency reported that Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters had advanced towards Afrin in the early hours of Sunday, supported by Turkish troops.

The YPG confirmed the advance, saying two villages in Afrin's Bilbil district near the Turkish border came under attack.

About 25,000 Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebels were joining the Turkish military operation in northern Syria with the goal of recapturing Arab towns and villages held by the YPG, a Syrian rebel commander told Reuters news agency on Sunday.

As early as Friday, thousands of FSA fighters had already been mobilised in Turkey's Hatay province and Syrian locations east of Afrin.

Major Yasser Abdul Rahim, who is also the commander of Failaq al-Sham, a main FSA rebel group in the operations room of the campaign, said the rebels did not seek to enter Afrin but encircle it and expel the YPG.

"We have no interest in entering the city only the military targets inside the city and the villages around it. We aim to encircle the city and ensure the militias are evicted. We won't fight in the city as we have no problem with civilians," he said.

A main goal of the military operation was to recapture Tel Rifaat, a town southeast of Afrin, and a string of Arab villages the YPG captured from rebels in February 2016, driving out tens of thousands of inhabitants, Abdul Rahim said.

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Smoke rises from Syria's Afrin region following the Turkish operation on Saturday [Reuters]
"The task of the Free Syrian Army is first to regain sixteen Arab towns and villages occupied by the foreign militias [YPG] with the help of the Russian air force," Abdul Rahim told Reuters in a phone interview from inside Syria.

The fighting Abdul Rahim was referring to forced at least 150,000 residents of these villages to flee to Azaz.

They are sheltering in camps at the Turkish border and rebels say they have not been allowed to go back to their homes.

On Saturday, Erdogan said the operation in Afrin would be followed by a push in the northern town of Manbij, which the US-backed Kurdish forces captured from ISIL in 2016.

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Utter violation of Syria's sovereignty, without UN Security council authorization or the Syria's sovereignty government request, how can turkey army invade another country?

So Turks fight Kurds, but not ISIS?


another Terrorist supporter scum , Turkey fights PKK-YPG Terrorists , not Kurds
and Turkey saved over 350.000 Syrian Kurds from ISIS-YPG Terrorists , Syrian Regime and Iran backed Terrorist groups
over 70% of the Kurds are with Turkey

only Turkish Army fought against ISIS .. Turkish Army killed over 4000 ISIS Terrorists in Syria and Iraq
and The US backed YPG-ISIS Terrorists are same microbes for humanity
and The US-YPG Terrorists transfered 1000 ISIS terrorists to Afrin from Raqqa to attack Turkey
so Turkish Armed Forces fight against PKK-YPG and ISIS Terrorists in Afrin

and who cares about terrorist supporter UN Security Council ( The US-Uk-France-Russia-China who killed millions of innocent civilians after WW2 )

We never forget terrorist China invaded Turkistan and killed millions of innocent and unarmed Uyghur Turks after WW2

Wtf China invaded Turkistan without UN Security council authorization ?
Wtf The US and Uk invaded Iraq without UN Security council authorization ?
Wtf France and The US attacked on Libya without UN Security council authorization ?
Wtf Russia invaded Georgia and Ukraine without UN Security council authorization ?
Wtf The US-YPG Terrorists invaded 40% of Syria without UN Security council authorization ?
Wtf Israel invaded over 80% of Palestine after 1948 without UN Security council authorization ?


Turkey fight against PKK Terrorist organization since 1985 and ugly smelly PKK Terrorists killed over 40.000 Turkish citizens including women and childs since 1985

so YPG = PKK both are same terrorists
and PKK-YPG attacks Turkey and last one attack was yesterday , YPG Terrorists fired 11 rockets on Turkish city and 1 killed , 37 injured

there are many PKK-YPG Terrorist camps in Iraq and Syria , Terrorists attacks Turkey from Syria and Iraq

so Turkey has right to clean borders from Terrorists and Turkey was exercising its rights to combat the attacks as defined by article 51 of the United Nations

nobody can stop Turkey to fight against Terrorism
This is a national struggle and we will crush anyone who opposes our national struggle


also TURKEY saved over 3,5 million of Syrians from ISIS-YPG Terrorists , Assad Regime , Iran , Russia who killed over 800.000 Syrians

and TURKEY spent over $30 billion for over 3,5 million of Syrian refugees in Turkey
 
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What the hell is going on in Syria!!!!
Will respective Turkish members tell me what is future plans of turkey?
1-Why Specifically Afrin region that is the only Kurd region in direct contact with Alqaeda Terrorists in Idlib and Damascus? Why not other SDF Held Areas as well like Manbij, Kobani, Qamishli?
2-Suppose if Afrin is completely overpowered by Turkish Army and ES Militias, What then? It is Syrian Territory, What if by the end of Operation Olive Branch There are still Alqaeda Left in Idlib will Turkey Mediate between Syria and ES Rebels and Hand Over Afrin Region to Syrian Government Forces? or start a war directly with Syria in support of HTS Nusra Alqaeda?(And by that also Direct Hostility with Iran Hizbollah and Russia)
3-And Suppose if After Operation Olive Branch is a success, and Turkey Allies with syria and Afrin Region is handed over to Syrian Arab army, and ES forces also Ally themselves with SAA then what would become of the Northern Syria held by SDF that is fully backed by US forces? What of Kobani, Qamishli, Hasakha, Manbij, Raqqa? Will Turkey Start Operation there too? Afrin Operation success will come at huge losses to Kurds and so permanent hostility and no chances of reconciliation with SDF in future with war being only solution and USA on their side as well.
4-And lastly suppose if after kurdish problem in Syria is resolved what of Iraqi Kurds?

Please Answer Only with detailed arguments not one liners if anyone have sufficient knowledge of Syrian Conflict. The only way out i see is that now Turkey have decisively started the war Turkey have to Allign itself with Syria-Iran-Iraq Alliance completely and Crush the Kurdish Militias through out Syria Iraq Iran and Turkey. And Totally Kick USA out of this Equation Otherwise God Forbade If Turkey decided to Keep the Al-Qaeda Supporters entertained then this will become a never ending war ravaging all countries in the region.
 
Why not other SDF Held Areas as well like Manbij, Kobani, Qamishli?

dont worry the next target will be Manjib after Afrin

and We dont care about Raqqa .. We will clean the borders from the Terrorists
and Turkey was exercising its rights to combat the attacks as defined by article 51 of the United Nations

Nobody can stop Turkey to fight against Terrorism
This is a national struggle and we will crush anyone who opposes our national struggle

btw Turkey and Russia agree to clean Idlib
everybody will see , what will happen in Idlib after Olive Branch operation of Turkish Army

No one will believe turkies are fighting with isis.

YPG is fighting with ISIS

Turkey is fighting with YPG

Turkey is ISIS wh**re

no more your lies and cheap propaganda wont work

whole world have seen how The US and YPG Terrorists tranfered ISIS Terrorists to Afrin , Libya and Sinai from Raqqa
The US-YPG Terrorists transfered 1000 ISIS terrorists to Afrin from Raqqa to attack Turkey
so Turkish Armed Forces fight against PKK-YPG and ISIS Terrorists in Afrin
YPG and ISIS are whres of The US
and both American little btches YPG and ISIS will be destroyed by Turkish Army in Afrin
 
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dont worry the next target will be Manjib after Afrin

and We dont care about Raqqa .. We will clean the borders from the Terrorists
and Turkey was exercising its rights to combat the attacks as defined by article 51 of the United Nations

Nobody can stop Turkey to fight against Terrorism
This is a national struggle and we will crush anyone who opposes our national struggle

btw Turkey and Russia agree to clean Idlib
everybody will see , what will happen in Idlib after Olive Branch operation of Turkish Army
What of US Support for SDF?
I would even say that if Turkey is only successful to Disengage USA from Kurdish support in Northern Syria, The SAA will be enough to neutralize all Kurdish militias all across the north even without a major military operation on Agreed terms of Turkey and Syrian government.
Only US Air strikes and Support are stopping SAA and Kurds to come on the same table.
M Sure Turkish Border fully Secured by SAA is the best Solution for Turkish Kurd Problem
 

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