“We are carrying out our struggle there determinedly and we will continue to do so. We will make those terrorists pay in kind,” Erdoğan told reporters travelling with him in Dakar on March 2.
Eight Turkish troops were killed in an ambush by YPG militants and Erdoğan said he was informed by Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar immediately after the incident took place. Two members of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) were also killed and some are wounded, while anti-aircraft weapons and the YPG personnel using them were neutralized as a result of heavy strikes, he added.
The killing of eight troops was announced by the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) in two separate written statements late on March 1. It said 13 soldiers were wounded during the operation.
[hurriyetdailynews.com]
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At least over a dozen Syrian government troops of the National Defence Forces (Syrian national militia) have been killed after a series of airstrikes by Turkish warplanes on their positions in the country’s Afrin region.
ReplyDeleteThe Syrian forces unit which came under attack was stationed at an ex-Russian military camp (originally serving as a deescalation point) in the town of Kafr Jannah, only very recently having been assigned to the site. Turkish airpower deliberately targeted the base.
Reports state that at least fifteen Syrian troops were killed in the airstrikes; some pro-Turkish sources claim that the death toll for government forces is as high as 30.
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Turkish air strikes killed at least 36 pro-regime fighters backing Kurdish militia in Syria’s northwestern Kurdish enclave of Afrin on Saturday, a monitoring group said.
ReplyDeleteThe strikes on the area of Kafr Janna were the third such raids on loyalist fighters in the enclave bordering Turkey in less than 48 hours, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.