Erdogan Signals Imminent Turkey Incursion of Northeast Syria
- Turkey seeks to push back Kurdish militia and settle refugees
- Military operations to be ‘carried out on land and air’
Syrian boys watch as a Turkish military vehicle patrol on Oct. 4.
Photographer: Delil Souileman/AFP via Getty Images
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Turkey is ready to start a military operation in northern Syria to claim areas from American-backed Kurdish forces and may act “as soon as today or tomorrow,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday.
“We have made our preparations, completed our operation plans,” Erdogan said at an AK Party meeting in Kizilcahamam in Ankara Province. “We have given the necessary orders.” The operation in the east of the Euphrates river in northern Syria “will be carried out on land and air,” he said.