Turkish soldier killed in Syria
One Turkish soldier was killed and another was wounded in a mortar attack on their position in northwest Syria on Sunday and Turkey’s military launched retaliatory fire, the Turkish Defense Ministry said.
It said the attack was carried out by the Kurdish YPG fighters in the Afrin region, where Turkey-backed Syrian rebels drove out YPG fighters last year, Reuters reported.
“After the incident, targets identified as belonging to terrorists were subject to fire,” the ministry said in a statement. Ankara says the YPG is a terrorist group and an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which is labelled as a terrorist organization in Turkey.
The ministry published a photo of the soldier who was killed on its Twitter feed.
The YPG has been a key ally of the United States in its fight against Islamic State in Syria.
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