Erdogan says anti-Kurdish Syria offensive to be over quickly

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he hopes his country’s offensive against a Kurdish militia in northern Syria will be completed in “a very short time.”

Turkish-backed Syrian rebel fighters man a monitoring point near the Syrian village of Qilah, in the southwestern edge of the Afrin region close to the border with Turkey, on January 21, 2018. (AFP/ OMAR HAJ KADOUR)

“God willing, this operation will be finished in a very short time,” Erdogan tells supporters in the northwestern Turkish province of Bursa after Turkey launched the campaign to remove the Syrian Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) militia, which Ankara views as a terror group, from the region of Afrin.

— AFP

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