Nobody has the right to impose limits on Turkey's operation against the U.S.-backed Kurdish militia the People's Protection Units (YPG), Bozdag told reporters following a cabinet meeting.
Meanwhile, a Foreign Ministry official also rejected Russian media reports that the Turkish military operation along the Syrian border will be limited to Afrin.
Turkey has made no such commitment to Russia, the official was quoted by state-run Anadolu Agency as saying.
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German politicians decry arms sales to Turkey amid ongoing operation against Syrian Kurds...
ReplyDeleteGerman politicians have widely opposed plans to provide Turkey with tank modernization upgrades after Leopard 2 combat vehicles were spotted taking part in the military operation against the Kurds in Syria’s Afrin.
Amid rumors of potential resumption of arms sales to Turkey, German opposition parties, the Greens and the Left, urged the government to reconsider such deals with Ankara, pointing out that German weapons are now killing innocent people in Syria.
“An immediate halt to all arms exports to Turkey is long overdue,” Agnieszka Brugger, a Greens lawmaker told the Heilbronner Stimme newspaper. “This intense situation should be a wake-up call for the German government.”.....https://on.rt.com/8xm0