Turkey on Wednesday launched an offensive in northeastern Syria against the YPG, a Kurdish militia backed by Western countries but described as "terrorist group"By Ankara, this operation sparked an international outcry.
"No matter what some say, we will not stop this"Operation targeting the People's Protection Units (YPG) in northeastern Syria," said the Turkish president in a speech in Istanbul.We are now receiving threats to the right and to the left, we are told 'Stop'. (…) We will not go back"he insisted.
Donald Trump threatens Turkey's collapse if it pursues in its bellicose intentions
After seeming to give the green light to this operation, US President Donald Trump blew the hot and cold, threatening in particular "wreck"the Turkish economy if Ankara"exceeded the limitsOn Friday, Washington said the US Defense Minister had "strongly encouraged"Turkey to"interrupt"his operation in Syria, during a telephone conversation the day before with his Turkish counterpart.
The European Union has strongly criticized the Turkish offensive and a French minister said Friday that the sanctions map was "on the tableTurkey claims that this operation aims to put in place asecurity zone"32 km deep along its border to separate it from the territories controlled by the YPG."We will continue our fight until all the terrorists have descended to the south of 32 km"planned by this area, said Friday Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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