Turkey hits Kurdish city in northern Syria

Turkish security forces on Saturday hit several Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) targets in the Afrin area of Syria following remarks made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who said Turkey would carry out a military operation in Syria’s Afrin and Manbij regions “if the terrorists do not pull out in one week,” Anadolu news agency reported.

According to the report, Turkish artillery units hit PYD targets in Afrin’s Bosoufane, Cindirese, Deir Bellout and Rajo districts from the Reyhanli and Kırıkhan districts of Turkey’s southern Hatay province and a Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) observation post in Syria’s Idlib region.

On Saturday Anadolu reported that a convoy of Turkish tanks were deployed on the Syrian border in Hatay.

The Turkish military on Oct. 9 launched surveillance and reconnaissance operations in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib as part of the multinational “Tension Reduction Control Force.”

Erdogan on Oct. 24 said Turkey had to a great extent completed its operation in Idlib, indicating that Afrin would be the next target.

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