Turkish armed forces have deployed more than 40 armored vehicles along the Syrian border on Monday. In Hatay province, two dozen armored vehicles were deployed for “reinforcement reasons”, said the source. In Viransehir district, 20 vehicle-military convoy arrived, sent from southeastern province for assistance along Syrian border. Furthermore, a source said that intense smoke was coming out of Nesreyieh region in Afrin, which is under control of PKK/PYD. “In the coming days, God willing, we will continue with Afrin [operation] – that we started first with Euphrates Shield Operation – to purge terrorism from our southern borders”, Erdogan said in the central Anatolian Tokat province. On Saturday, Turkish security forces hit several PKK/PYD targets in the Afrin district of Syria’s Aleppo province.
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