Turkey continues its strikes in Syria and announces its determination to move to secure its borders

On Wednesday, Turkey continued targeting sites of Kurdish fighters in northern Syria, while Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan affirmed his "determination" to intervene to secure the southern borders of his country.

"Our determination to protect all of our southern borders through a safe zone is stronger today than ever before," he said.

"Turkey has the means to pursue and punish terrorists involved in attacks against it inside and outside its borders," Erdogan said during a meeting of the parliamentary bloc of his Justice and Development Party in the capital, Ankara.

Erdogan defined his main goals, speaking of the areas of "Tal Rifaat, Manbij and Ayn al-Arab" (Kobani in Kurdish), with the aim of securing Turkey's southern borders by establishing a safe area 30 km deep.

On Sunday, Turkey launched, within the framework of what it calls Operation "Claw Sword", a series of air strikes and continuous artillery bombardment against the positions of the PKK and the Kurdish People's Protection Units in northern Iraq and Syria.

In the latest episode in the series of Turkish attacks, Turkish air strikes targeted, on Wednesday evening, positions of the Kurdish security forces responsible for protecting al-Hol camp, where thousands of displaced people and members of ISIS families are staying in northeastern Syria, according to a spokesman and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

A spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Forces, Farhad Shami, told AFP, "Turkish aircraft targeted the Internal Security Forces (Asayish) with five strikes inside the camp," while the Observatory reported that the strikes targeted the positions of those forces responsible for protecting the camp in its vicinity, "which sparked chaos." among its inhabitants.

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