Planned military operation in Syria could expand beyond Afrin: Turkey FM
Tehran (KNA) - Turkey says the military operation it plans to launch against US-backed Kurdish militants in the northwestern Syrian city of Afrin could expand to the nearby city of Manbij.
"Turkey's precautions against YPG/PKK cannot be limited to only Afrin. There is also Manbij and east of the Euphrates River," Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in Canada's Vancouver on Tuesday.
He was referring to the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara views as a terror organization and the Syrian branch of the outlawed Kurdish Workers Party (PKK).On Sunday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Turkey will launch an attack on Afrin, which is controlled by the YPG, "in the coming days" in a bid to "purge terror" from his country's southern border.
Source: Press TV