“Don’t get your hopes up. We will only leave Afrin once our work is done,” Erdogan said in a speech in Ankara on March 15, Hurriyet daily reported.

The European Parliament has drafted a joint motion calling on the Turkish government to “withdraw its troops and play a constructive role in resolving the Syrian conflict.”

The motion, which will be decided by a vote on March 15, states that the European Parliament is “seriously worried about the escalating situation in Afrin,” the YPG controlled area in northwest Syria against which Turkey launched a military operation with fighters of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) on Jan. 20.

Turkey launched “Operation Olive Branch” to clear Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militants from Afrin.

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