Turkey sent troops into northern Syria two years ago to fight against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG).
Turkey accuses the YPG of being the Syrian branch of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a group blacklisted by Ankara and its Western allies.
The Turkish army has also increased its strikes against PKK rear bases in the north of Iraq in the past few months.
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<p style="text-align: left;">Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed at his ruling Justice and Development Party&rsquo;s (AKP) congress that Turkey would press on with and expand its cross-border military operations, Arab News reported.
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