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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad pledged on October 17 to face the Turkish offensive " by all legitimate means " after the deployment of his army in support of Kurdish forces targeted by the military operation in Ankara. northern Syria.
The Syrian President spoke for the first time since his army deployed in areas of the north of the country at the call of the semi-autonomous authorities of the Kurdish minority, confronted since October 9th in an offensive of the Turkish army and its Syrian deputies.
Denouncing the " aggression " of Turkey, Bashar al-Assad assured that Syria " will respond to it and will face, in all its forms, in any region of Syrian territory and by all the legitimate means available ."
"Blatant invasion"
Bashar al-Assad pointed out that Syria had responded to " the blatant invasion of Turkey in several places, hitting its agents and terrorists ". The head of state was speaking by receiving a senior Iraqi official, Faleh al-Fayad, adviser to the Iraqi Prime Minister for National Security.
Sign of an unprecedented rapprochement between Damascus and the large Syrian Kurdish minority, their forces have faced together in some areas the Syrian auxiliaries who fight with Ankara, including near Ain Issa.
(With agencies)
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