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Kurdish Forces Warn Turkey Is Getting Ready for Assault on the Syrian City of Afrin

Sputnik News

Turkey is getting ready for an assault on the Syrian city of Afrin, located to the north of Aleppo, which is currently controlled by the Syrian Kurds, an official representative of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), Nuri Mehmud, told Sputnik Turkiye, Sputnik News reports.

"Turkey is pulling its forces to the cities of Azaz and Mare in northwestern Syria. Besides, it is deploying heavy armament on the border near Idlib. We can't provide the exact numbers of the units of the heavy armament  which is being deployed by Ankara, because the Turkish military and the units of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) are launching regular attacks on Afrin,"  Nuri Mehmud told Sputnik.





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