Turkey military carried out the shelling from Turkey’s border province of Kilis, Hurriyet daily reported.

The artillery fire could be heard from the city center in Kilis as well as in some villages of the neighboring province of Hatay.

Meanwhile, Turkey launched a military operation on Jan. 22 towards Afrin from Syria’s Azaz, the Turkish military announced around noon on the same day, according to the state-run Anadolu Agency.

The military vehicle reinforcements continued to be made for the border units.

The Turkish Armed Forces on Jan. 21 took control of 11 YPG positions and created safe zones during Operation Olive Branch in Afrin.

The Turkish army has claimed that it captured Afrin’s Shankal, Qorne, Bali, Adah Manli villages and Kita, Kordo and Bibno rural areas along with four other hills.

On the first day of the ground operation, which started in the early hours of Jan. 21, the Turkish army surrounded Afrin from its north, northwest and west.

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