The only aim of Operation Olive Branch is to eliminate terrorists from its area of operations, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ, Hurriyet reports.
"The only target of this operation is the PKK [outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party], KCK [Kurdistan Communities Union], PYD/YPG [Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party/People’s protection Units], and ISIL [Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant] terror organizations," Bozdağ said in Ankara.
Operation Olive Branch in Syria is not an operation "against our Kurdish brothers living in the region," he added.