- Title: Turkey deploys tanks to Syrian border
- Date: 11th October 2019
- Summary: AKCAKALE, TURKEY (OCTOBER 11, 2019) (REUTERS) TANK DETACHING FROM TRUCK VARIOUS OF TANK DRIVING ONTO TRUCK SOLDIERS SITTING ON TOP OF TANKS MILITARY VEHICLE DRIVING AS TANKS ARE BEING LOADED VARIOUS OF TANKS ON TRUCK, SOLDIERS SITTING ON TOP SOLDIERS POSING FOR PHOTO ON TOP OF TANKS CIVILIANS WATCHING THE MILITARY DEPLOYMENT SOLDIER WALKING ACROSS TANKS LOADED ON TRUCKS / SHOWING HAND SIGN AND JUMPING OFF VARIOUS OF SOLDIER ON TOP OF TANK VARIOUS OF TANKS IN TEMPORARY MILITARY BASE CIVILIAN LOOKING ON FROM ACROSS ROAD
- Embargoed: 25th October 2019 17:17
- Keywords: Turkey Syria military operation Operation Peace Spring tanks deployment border Syrian Kurdish militia
- Location: AKCAKALE, TURKEY
- City: AKCAKALE, TURKEY
- Country: Turkey
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Military Conflicts
- Reuters ID: LVA001B0NN7EV
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Turkey deployed more troops on its border with Syria on Friday night (October 11) during the third day of a Turkish military offensive into northeastern Syria that has killed hundreds of people.
Turkey says the purpose of its assault is to defeat the Kurdish YPG militia, which it sees as an enemy for its links to insurgents in Turkey. It says it aims to set up a "safe zone" inside Syria, where it can resettle many of the 3.6 million refugees it has been hosting.
World powers fear Turkey's offensive could open a new phase in Syria's war and deepen regional turmoil.
The incursion, launched after Trump withdrew U.S. troops who had been fighting alongside Kurdish forces against Islamic State militants, has opened a new front in the eight-year-old Syrian civil war and drawn fierce international criticism. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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