Turkey: No turning back from ground assault on Kurdish-controlled Syrian enclave

Turkey’s defence minister has said there can be no turning back from his country’s decision to launch a ground assault on a Syrian Kurdish-controlled enclave in north-west Syria, with sporadic shelling of the area already under way.

Turkey’s defence minister has said there can be no turning back from his country’s decision to launch a ground assault on a Syrian Kurdish-controlled enclave in north-west Syria, with sporadic shelling of the area already under way.

Nurettin Canikli told Turkey’s A Haber television that the Syrian Kurdish fighters in Afrin and other Kurdish-controlled territories pose a "real" and ever-increasing threat to Turkey.