Ankara will carry out new military operations along its borders after its two previous offensives into Syria, President Tayyip Erdoğan said on Sunday, as he announced his manifesto for next month's snap elections.
Erdoğan described next month's snap presidential and parliamentary polls as a "milestone" for a strong Turkey. The country would "take the stage as a global power," he vowed.
Turkish AKP government is now carrying out an offensive into northern Syria's Afrin region. The Afrin campaign is Turkey's second cross-border operation into Syria during the seven-year-old war.
"In the new term, Turkey will add new operations to the Euphrates Shield and Olive Branch operations," Erdoğan said in reference to a cross-border offensive in Syria 2016 and to the one in Afrin. "The operations will continue until not one terrorist is left."
AKP government has previously threatened to push its Afrin offensive against the Kurdish militant YPG further east to Manbij.
Erdoğan also promised lower interest rates and inflation and to reduce the current account deficit.
"The Turkish economy will be more resistant to outer shocks and financial blows. Turkey will be even more attractive to investors," Erdogan said.
He added that Turkey had never abandoned its goal of European Union membership.
