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View all search resultsTurkey launches air strikes against Kurds in Syria
US, Russia call for restraint after Ankara vows ground operation ‘soon’ following Istanbul blast.
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T
urkey struck several targets in Syria on Tuesday after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued new threats to launch a ground operation "soon" against Kurdish fighters despite calls for de-escalation from Washington and Moscow.
Ankara launched a series of air strikes in Operation Claw-Sword on Sunday – hitting dozens of Kurdish targets across Iraq and Syria – and announcing that its military was once again "on top of the terrorists".
The air raids followed a bombing in Istanbul on Sunday that killed six people and wounded 81.
Turkey blamed the attack on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which is blacklisted as a terror group by the European Union and the United States.
The Turkish leader has threatened a new military operation into northern Syria since May and upped those threats in the wake of this month's attack.
"We have been on top of terrorists for a few days with our planes, cannons and drones," Erdogan told a ceremony in the Black Sea province of Artvin.
"God willing, we will root out all of them soon with our tanks, artillery and soldiers."
