Erdogan threatens ground operation into Syria

SpaceWar.com reports: “Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday threatened to launch a ground operation into Syria, following cross-border air strikes on Kurdish positions and deadly fire on Turkey.

‘There is no question that this operation be limited to only an aerial operation,’ Erdogan told reporters on a flight home from Qatar after attending the opening of the World Cup.

‘We will make those who disturb us on our territory pay,’ he added.

The Turkish leader has threatened a new military operation into northern Syria since May.

Overnight, Turkey hit dozens of targets in northern Syria as well as northern Iraq, a week after a bomb attack in Istanbul killed six people and left 81 wounded, which Ankara blamed on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)…”

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