Turkey will free Syria’s Tal Rifat, Manbij from ‘terrorists’: Erdogan

Ankara: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Turkey will rid the Tal Rifat and Manbij regions of northern Syria from militants, confirming for the first time new infiltration targets and saying it will continue in other regions.

His remarks, in a speech to lawmakers from his ruling AK Party, came a week after he pledged a new military incursion along Turkey’s southern border against the US-backed Syrian Kurdish militia YPG, which Ankara sees as a terrorist group. .