- Title: Calm at border a day after Turkey opens assault in Syria
- Date: 10th October 2019
- Summary: TEL ABYAD, SYRIA (AS FILMED FROM AKCAKALE, TURKEY) (OCTOBER 10, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF BUILDINGS AND EMPTY STREETS IN THE DISTANCE DEBRIS ON THE GROUND FOLLOWING AIR STRIKES EMPTY HIGHWAY VIEW OF THE TOWN IN THE DISTANCE VEHICLE DRIVING PAST VARIOUS OF TOWERS VIEW OF BUILDINGS
- Embargoed: 24th October 2019 07:13
- Keywords: Turkey Syria military operation Syrian Kurdish militia Tel Abyad YPG
- Location: TEL ABYAD, SYRIA (AS FILMED FROM AKCAKALE, TURKEY)
- City: TEL ABYAD, SYRIA (AS FILMED FROM AKCAKALE, TURKEY)
- Country: Turkey
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Military Conflicts
- Reuters ID: LVA001B0IKHMV
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Turkey's border with Syria was calm on Thursday morning (October 10) a day after Turkey started a military offensive into northern Syria to eliminate what Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called a "terror corridor" on its southern border with the conflict-torn country.
Main streets in the Syrian border town of Tel Abyad, across Turkey's Akcakale, were empty on Thursday morning but debris was visible on the ground following Wednesday's (October 9) air strikes.
Turkish warplanes and artillery pounded Kurdish YPG targets in Tel Abyad and Ras Al Ain on Wednesday with air strikes and artillery barrages in a cross-border military operation just days after U.S. troops pulled back from the area and left Kurdish allies vulnerable to the attacks of Turkish Armed Forces (TSK).
The part of the border that U.S. forces vacated this week, a nearly 100-km (62-mile) stretch between the Syrian towns of Tel Abyad and Ras al-Ain, is now under attack.
European countries called on Ankara to halt the operation and Arab League called for an emergency meeting on Saturday (October 12) after Egypt denounced "a blatant and unacceptable attack on a brotherly Arab state".
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