Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalın said Turkey would not seek permission to conduct military counter-terrorism operations aimed at ensuring the country’s national security. It gives information about Anatolia.
“Turkey will not ask for permission” [антитеррористических] operations,” Kalyn said, according to the agency.
According to the press secretary of the President of Turkey, Ankara is ready to discuss the challenges and threats with its partners in order to take more joint action to eliminate them, and in their absence it intends to solve the problems “on its own”. have.”
Kalyn noted that all decisions and actions of the Turkish army in the regions bordering Syria and Iraq are based on Article 51 of the UN Charter (right to self-defense).
“The modern concept of countering terrorism involves eliminating the threat in the bud.”
On 20 November, the Turkish Ministry of National Defense announced the Operation Claw-Sword. Ankara is of the opinion that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party in Syria was involved in the terrorist attack that took place in the center of Istanbul on 13 November.
Turkish Armed Forces destroyed 89 targets in Syria, including shelters and ammunition depots, in a one-day operation.
According to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Ankara start Air operation in Syria and Iraq in connection with “Russia’s refusal to fulfill its promises to withdraw Kurdish formations from the border of the republic” in accordance with the 2019 Sochi agreement.