Erdogan expects support from Syria in Turkey’s battle with PKK

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) answers journalists’ questions during a presser with Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz, successful Istanbul, October 19. [AP]

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said connected Sunday that Syria’s caller enactment is determined to basal retired separatists there, arsenic Ankara said its subject had “neutralized” 32 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, oregon PKK, successful the country.

A rebellion by groups adjacent to Turkey ousted Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad past month. Since then, Turkey-backed Syrian forces person occasionally clashed successful the northbound with U.S-backed Kurdish forces that Ankara deems terrorists.

“With the gyration successful Syria … the hopes of the separatist terrorist enactment deed a wall,” Erdogan told his party’s provincial legislature successful Trabzon.

“The caller medication successful Syria is showing an highly determined stance successful preserving the country’s territorial integrity and unitary structure,” helium said.

“The extremity of the terrorist enactment is near. There is nary enactment near different than to surrender their weapons, wantonness terrorism, and dissolve the organization. They will look Turkey’s robust fist,” Erdogan added.

The defence ministry separately announced the equipped forces’ cognition successful bluish Syria that it said had “neutralized” – a term that usually means killed – the 32 PKK members. It said Turkey’s subject had besides “neutralized” 4 PKK members successful bluish Iraq, where the militants are based. [Reuters]