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Families displaced by the YPG wait to be reunited in Syria
Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch in January to drive the YPG/PKK and Daesh out and allow people to return.
Families displaced by the YPG wait to be reunited in Syria
Avbanu Bakir after returning to her house in Omer Ushagi village, in the Raju area, located west of Afrin. The area was cleared of PYD/PKK and Daesh terrorists by the Turkish Armed Forces under Operation Olive Branch, launched in Syria's Afrin region on February 25, 2018 in Aleppo, Syria. / AA
By Asena Boşnak
February 28, 2018

Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch in northern Syria more than five weeks ago with the aim of driving the YPG/PKK and Daesh groups away from its border region, thereby allowing civilians to return home.

TRT World'sAhmed al Burai met one man, who's been waiting years for his village to be freed so he can be reunited with his family.

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