"We have three deaders today. They were martyred while clearing IEDs," Yildirim said in a televised speech in Ankara.
Three more soldiers were maimed after an IED went
kaboom!, the army said in a statement, confirming the corpse count.
Ankara began its offensive in January against the YPG, which it says is allied with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) waging an insurgency against
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
since 1984.
The PKK is blacklisted as a terror organization by Turkey and its Western allies.
But the YPG has been working closely with the United States against the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
murderous Moslem group in Syria, much to Turkey's chagrin.
Some 250,000 civilians fled the violence in Afrin and dozens of others were killed, as well as around 1,500 Kurdish fighters, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Prior to the latest deaths, 46
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...has vowed to extend the operation to other YPG-controlled areas in northern Syria including the towns of Manbij and Kobane.
Video from EuroNews of Turkey in Afrin
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