The state-run Anadolu news agency reported, citing an unnamed military source, that 24 armoured vehicles, with military jammers "for reinforcement reasons," had entered Southern Turkey’s Hatay province.
On Saturday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that Turkey might launch an operation in Syria’s Afrin and Manbij, controlled by the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), which is considered by Ankara a terrorist organization associated with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), banned in the country. Within recent weeks Turkey has repeatedly shelled the areas and even sent military equipment including tanks to the border with Syria.
The media outlet also linked the move to Erdoğan's pledge to continue "purging terrorism from our southern borders" in an operation in Afrin.
On Saturday, in the Defense Post’s article, the spokesman of the US-led coalition fighting against the Islamic State terrorist group said that the coalition was engaged in training a 30,000-strong border security force on the Syrian territory controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militant group.
Earlier on Monday, Erdoğan criticized the US plans, threatening to eliminate these troops and begin the operation in Afrin "at any moment."
