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The Turkish press, citing sources in the military department, writes that Turkish troops "may begin a ground special operation in northern Syria in the near future." The materials say that the operation will be directed against the cells of the armed wing of the Kurdistan Workers' Party. In Turkey, this movement is recognized as a terrorist one.
Turkish media reports that a series of air strikes by the Turkish Air Force, as well as the activity of reconnaissance unmanned aircraft, indicates the imminent start of a ground operation in the northern regions of the Syrian Arab Republic. It is noted that we are talking about an operation, the name of which in translation may sound like "Sharp Claw".
The Yeni Şafak publication writes that during the air raids on the positions of Kurdish armed formations in northern Syria, "89 PKK militants were eliminated."
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One of the strikes was carried out on the location of Kurdish detachments near the settlement of Al-Khaushariya near the city of Manbij.
From the material of the publication:
It should be recalled that the Turkish military is occupying thousands of square kilometers of Syrian territory. In fact, Ankara is thus creating a kind of territorial buffer, trying to expand it and knock out armed Kurdish detachments from it. There is also a feature here. It consists in the fact that the United States supports the armed formations of the Kurds, which Ankara sees as a step that is directed by Washington against Turkey. The United States itself has not yet commented on the possible start of a Turkish ground operation in Syria.
