Afrin District

Turkey’s military operations in neighboring Syria “will not stop” with the district of Afrin and will continue in Manbij and Idlib, President Recep Erdoğan vowed on March 23.

Four Turkish soldiers were killed on March 22 in eastern Turkey and Syria's northwestern district of Afrin, officials have said. 

Three Turkish soldiers were killed in Syria’s Afrin after a hand-made explosive detonated, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on March 22. 

Turkey is "seriously" looking into looting claims in Syria's Afrin city center, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on March 22.

A branch of Turkey's Ziraat Bank in Komotini, northern Greece, was attacked with stones on Tuesday by a group of around 25 people.

Turkish news agency Anadolu said that the assailants claimed to be "anti-establishment anarchists" acting in solidarity with YPG, the Kurdish fighters in northwestern Syria who have come under attack by Turkey.

Turkey on March 20 rejected the Egyptian Foreign Ministry's statement on "Operation Olive Branch" in Afrin region.

Kilis Governor Mehmet Tekinarslan said on March 19 that Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militants have fired a total of 48 rockets on the southeastern province of Kilis during Turkey's ongoing "Operation Olive Branch" in Syria's Afrin district.

The Turkish Red Crescent is ready to provide humanitarian aid to all 323,000 people living in Syria's Afrin, its head Kerem Kınık has said.

The Athens metro's Panepistimio station will be closed on Tuesday from 4.30 p.m. as members of leftist groups have arranged a rally to express solidarity with Syrian Kurds in Afrin who have come under attack by Turkish forces.

The demonstration is being organized by the far-left Popular Unity party together with organizations representing Kurds living in Greece.

Turkey’s EU Minister Ömer Çelik has slammed top EU diplomat Federica Mogherini’s voicing of concerns about the Turkish army’s ongoing operation into Syria’s Afrin district against the People’s Protection Units (YPG), saying Turkey’s “sole objective is to fight against terrorism and to protect its borders.”