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Turkey hints at imminent Afrin operation
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’s top security body, the National Security Council (MGK), on Tuesday recommended that the government deploy forces around Syria’s Kurdish-held Afrin canton and in western Aleppo.

The MGK emphasized Turkey’s determination to secure its borders against terrorist groups. Afrin is controlled by the US-backed Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara views as the Syrian affiliate of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

On Monday, Ottoman Turkish Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli hinted at a possible operation in Afrin, saying such an operation "may be tomorrow or... sooner than tomorrow."

Last week, he said the PKK/YPG presence in Afrin poses a "serious danger and threat that should be removed in line with Turkey’s rights arising from international law."

The Ottoman Turkish military recently completed the formation of its third observation post in Syria’s northwest Idlib province, as part of a cease-fire co-guaranteed with Russia and Iran.

Earlier this month, Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
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 said his country needed to clear Afrin of the YPG after accomplishing its military operation in Idlib.

But Serhat Erkmen, a Middle East expert at the Ankara-based 21st Century Turkey Institute, told Arab News: "Following the agreement reached in Sochi last week between Moscow, Tehran and Ankara, a comprehensive military operation that would escalate regional tension is unlikely."
Posted by: Fred 2017-11-30
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