Turkey’s military is set to cross into northern Syria “shortly,” the Turkish communications director said, as part of an impending offensive to move US-backed Kurdish forces away from its border.”Turkish military, together with the Free Syrian Army, will cross the Turkish-Syrian border shortly,”
Fahrettin Altun, the Turkish government communications director tweeted from a verified account in the early hours of Wednesday morning from Istanbul.
Altun added that the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, also known as the YPG, had two options: “They can defect or we will have stop them from disrupting our counter-ISIS efforts.”
