Turkey's attack into Syria will extend from Kobani in the west to Hasaka in the east, going some 30-35 km into Syrian domain, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, and the town of Ras al Ain was at that point under Turkish control.
Tending to a news meeting in Istanbul, Erdogan said the Turkish-drove powers had additionally assaulted the Syrian bordertown of Tel Abyad, west of Ras al Ain, in its battle against the YPG Kurdish state army, which Ankara says is a psychological oppressor association.
"We concentrated first on the 120-km (75-mile) region between Ras al Ain and Tel Abyad. In this way we will isolate the 480-km psychological militant passageway down the center," Erdogan said.
"At that point we will assume responsibility for Hasaka on the one side and Ain al Arab (Kobani) on the other and complete the activity," he stated, alluding to towns either side of the present focal point of tasks. "We will go down to a profundity of around 30-35 km, in accordance with the protected zone map which we proclaimed beforehand."
Erdogan said two Turkish fighters and 16 Turkey-supported Syrian agitators had been slaughtered in the activity.
He included that Turkish-drove powers had slaughtered 440 contenders from the Kurdish-drove Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in which the YPG involves the primary battling component.
The Turkey-drove powers have so far held onto control of 109 square km (42 square miles), domain including 17 towns around Tel Abyad and four towns around Ras Al Ain, Erdogan said.
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