US warns Turkey could face 'very powerful' sanctions over its invasion of Syria to attack Kurdish forces.
BEIRUT — The Latest on Turkey’s invasion of northeastern Syria in a military operation against Syrian Kurdish fighters there :The White House is putting Turkey on notice that it could face new “powerful sanctions” and that the U.S. will “shut down the Turkish economy” if Ankara goes too far in its incursion against the Kurds in northern Syria.
Nusaybin is across the border from Ras al-Ayn, which is part of northeastern Syria controlled by the People’s Protection Units, or YPG. Turkey launched an offensive against the group, which it says is linked to an outlawed Kurdish insurgency at home, saying it will not allow any territorial area near its border to be run by Kurdish forces.
The ministry said in a statement Friday the soldiers died following a mortar attack on a Turkish base by Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units, or YPG. The explosions came amid fears that Islamic State sleeper cells could exploit the Turkish offensive in the area to expand their operations. Fuat Oktay told TRT World television in an interview aired Friday that the Turkish forces entered northeast Syria from the Tal Abyad and Ras al-Ayn regions. They advanced 8 kilometers deep into Tal Abyad and 4 kilometers into Ras al-Ayn, he said.Oktay repeated that the aim of the Turkish offensive was to prevent “a corridor of terror” along the Turkish-Syrian border and to create a “safe area” for the return of Syrian refugees.
Video images showed five armored personnel carriers moving from the western countryside of Ein Issa in the direction of Tal Abyad on Friday. Turkey’s official Anadolu news agency said four Turkey-backed Syrian opposition fighters died Thursday in an ambush near Tal Abyad. Anadolu Agency said the latest assault targeted the town of Suruc on Friday, while officials said a child in the town of Ceylanpinar died of his wounds late Thursday. The fatalities increased the death toll of civilians killed in mortar attacks on Turkish border towns to nine.
Turkey’s police force has previously said the investigations were under the charge of “terror propaganda.” Similar measures were taken during Turkey’s 2018 cross-border operation in Afrin in northwestern Syria, which was previously controlled by the YPG. “Those who even refrain from repatriating their own citizens who are foreign terrorist fighters in the ranks of , do not have the right to lecture Turkey on the fight against ,” the statement read.Syrian Kurdish officials say their security agencies have contained an apparent escape attempt at a sprawling camp in northeastern Syria, home to thousands of family members of Islamic State militants.
An official who deals with the camp said residents there are taking advantage of the Kurdish-led fighters’ focus on fending off a Turkish invasion that began Wednesday, to riot.Turkey’s official news agency says two more Kurdish-held villages have been captured on the third day of the cross-border offensive.
Friday’s government statement says Prime Minister Imran Khan called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to express “support and solidarity.” It was not immediately clear if there were any injuries on Friday. The camp is 12 kilometers, or 7 miles, from the border. The EU official strongly criticized Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for suggesting Thursday he would send 3.6 million Syrian refugees living in Turkey to Europe unless the 28-member bloc stops calling Turkey’s action an “invasion.”
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