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Turkey intensifies Syria campaign as Islamic State strikes Kurds
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-usa/turkey-intensifies-syria-campaign-as-islamic-state-strikes-kurds-idUSKBN1WQ0O2?il=0
Syria Kurds say 5 IS prisoners escape after Turkey shelling
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/352658/World/Region/Syria-Kurds-say–IS-prisoners-escape-after-Turkey-.aspx
“Kurdish officials said five detained members of the Islamic State group managed to escape from a Kurdish-run prison in northeastern Syria on Friday after Turkish shelling hit the area.
“Five terrorists escaped from Navkur after shelling struck near the prison,” said an official from the Syrian Democratic Forces, the de facto army of the autonomous Kurdish region.
A prison guard at Navkur, which is located in the town of Qamishli, had told AFP before the reported breakout that the facility housed mostly foreign jihadists.
Turkey and its Syrian proxies on Wednesday launched a deadly cross-border military offensive against areas controlled by the SDF.
The attack has resulted in artillery fire striking near a number of critical facilities, including some of the prisons where thousands of IS suspects are being held.
Without the support of US troops, who pulled back from the border earlier this week, Kurdish fighters have redeployed from other areas in a bid to hold off Turkish-backed forces.
Another Kurdish official said the Jerkin facility, another nearby prison, had also come under regular Turkish fear, increasing the chances of a breakout there too.
The prospect of mass breakouts is causing deep concern among many foreign powers, who fear the return on their soil of IS fighters and the resurgence of the jihadist group in the region.
According to the Kurdish administration, some 12,000 men are held in seven detention centres across Kurdish-controlled areas.
Among them are Syrians and Iraqis, as well as 2,500 to 3,000 suspected IS fighters from 54 other countries.”
Erdogan: Turkey fights against terrorism, not Kurds
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/erdogan-turkey-fights-against-terrorism-not-kurds/1610814
“Turkey’s current operation in northern Syria is not against Kurds, but against terrorist groups, Turkey’s president told an anti-terror conference in Istanbul on Friday…”
Turkey fights to re-establish the Ottoman Empire.
Ushered in with a good old-fashioned genocide.
“Oh those Armenians, those were the days,” he says.
Turkey accuses France’s Macron of ‘trying to divide Syria’
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-to-make-sure-isil-terrorists-held-accountable-fm-cavusoglu-147365
“Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu has accused France of leading efforts to disintegrate Syria as it tried to do so in Iraq in response to French President Emmanuel Macron’s insistent calls on the Turkish government to immediately cease its cross-border operation into Syrian territories.
“I openly say: Macron wants to disintegrate Syria,” Çavu?o?lu told private broadcaster CNNTürk in an interview late Oct 10. The Turkish foreign minister said that along with France, Israel and the United States, are also seeking a divided Syria by using the YPG. He said that was reason for their disturbance over the Turkish operation whose objective is to strengthen the territorial integrity of Syria.
Çavu?o?lu’s remarks came as prominent European nations have expressed their opposition to “Operation Peace Spring” by the Turkish army. France has strongly condemned the operation while Macron had met with a senior YPG official in Elysee before the Turkish operation started…”