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Turkish troops & armored vehicles amass at Syrian border after Erdogan announces IMMINENT incursion (PHOTOS, VIDEOS) | Turkish troops & armored vehicles amass at Syrian border after Erdogan announces IMMINENT incursion (PHOTOS, VIDEOS) |
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Turkey is deploying reinforcements to the Syrian border following president Erdogan’s announcement of a looming military operation against the US-backed Kurdish militants, videos shared on social media and national TV show. | Turkey is deploying reinforcements to the Syrian border following president Erdogan’s announcement of a looming military operation against the US-backed Kurdish militants, videos shared on social media and national TV show. |
Military convoys were captured in dozens of photos and videos, confirming the Turkish leader’s claim that preparations have been finalized to establish a so-called ‘safe zone’ on the Syrian soil along the Turkish border and that the operation could be launched “as soon as today or tomorrow.” | |
Additional armored vehicles and troops were sent to the border town of Akcakale, across from Tal Abyad in Syria, state television TRT confirms. | Additional armored vehicles and troops were sent to the border town of Akcakale, across from Tal Abyad in Syria, state television TRT confirms. |
Multiple videos shared on Twitter show dozens of military vehicles and busses, allegedly full of military personnel, moving towards the border in convoys. | Multiple videos shared on Twitter show dozens of military vehicles and busses, allegedly full of military personnel, moving towards the border in convoys. |
Helicopters are also increasingly ‘active’ in the border area airspace, according to some reports. | |
Ankara and Washington agreed earlier in August to create a ‘peace corridor’ to facilitate the return of displaced Syrians into northern Syria – until Turkey realized that joint “land and air patrols with US were a fairytale.” Erdogan even openly suggested that Washington was after a safe zone “not for Turkey but for the terrorist group.” | |
Neither the US nor Turkey bothered to consult Damascus, which repeatedly blasted all their joint and unilateral endeavors as flagrant violations of Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. | |
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