Daesh terrorists released from Raqqa by the terrorist PKK-linked People’s Protection Forces (YPG) were reserved to fight against Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Wednesday.
“It is alleged that YPG terrorist group has released Daesh members to fight against us. What difference does that make? They are all the same. They are terror groups that have assumed different roles in the same scenario,” Erdoğan said.
The president added that Daesh terrorists that were besieged and could have been easily destroyed in Raqqa were taken out and spread to other regions across Syria with some of them kept in reserve for possible action against Turkey.
Erdoğan stressed that Operation Olive Branch in northern Syria’s Afrin also aims to eradicate some of this Daesh reserve.
According to Erdoğan, some 268 terrorists have been killed over the past four days in Operation Olive Branch, while the Turkish army and FSA had 7-8 martyrs.
“Turkey will first exterminate the terrorists in Afrin and then make the region livable again, all for the 3.5 million Syrians we are currently hosting,” he said, adding that the region was getting under control step-by-step.
