Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Ankara is more determined than ever to secure its southern border, announcing the country "will come down hard on the terrorists with a land operation at the most convenient time."
Rocket targeting Azaz district leaves five civilians dead, including a child, and eight others wounded, reports and witnesses say.
Ankara aims to clear northern Syria's Tel Rifaat, Manbij in operation to establish 30-kilometre security zone south of Turkish border.
Terrorist groups threatening war-torn Syria had also upped the ante against Ankara, says Türkiye's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.
Ankara is preparing to clear northern Syria's Tel Rifaat, Manbij in operation to establish 30-kilometre security zone south of Turkish border, says Türkiye's President Erdogan.
Despite recent Russian military escalation against the Syrian National Army (SNA), negotiation remains an essential tool for all parties to draw the future map of control in northern Syria.
The youth of Arab-dominated Manbij city were forced to join the SDF ranks for years until the longstanding resentment exploded into social unrest.
YPG/PKK terrorists opened fire to disperse the protesters and detained many civilians during the past two days who had participated in the popular movement against the terror group's forced recruitment of children.
Damascus has had a tactical relationship with the PKK since the 1970s, when the terror group was in its infancy. Now the old ties are being renewed in light of Turkey's military operation in northern Syria.
Turkey's operation has been widely condemned in the West, and mostly by those who don't understand Syria, the region, or its people.
"You have to eliminate the social dynamics underlying radicalisation. Turkey's secure regional plan is for exactly this goal," says Fahrettin Altun, the communications director for Turkish Presidency.
Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said the US would not be able to delay Ankara in establishing a safe zone in northeastern Syria as a US delegation visits Turkey to discuss the implementation of a Joint Operations Center.
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