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Turkish jets patrol border as Syria cease-fire largely holds

Turkey was on Feb. 27 closely following a landmark U.N.-backed cease-fire in Syria that came into effect at midnight in the war-torn country.

Turkish Air Force F-16s continuously patrol the Turkish-Syrian border with the cease-fire largely holding amid reports of some minor clashes and attacks.

PYD aims to create refugee influx to gain territory: Turkish security officials

Security officials have stated that Turkey began shelling positions of Syria's Democratic Union Party (PYD) militias due to the fear that the PYD's capture of Azaz, a critical town in the Syrian conflict, could spark a new refugee influx towards the Turkish border.

50 kilos of explosives found in Turkish border town

The Turkish gendarmerie has found four abandoned bags stuffed with 50 kilograms of plastic explosives in the southeastern district of Akçakale, which is across the border from Syria's Tal Abyad, which is under Democratic Union Party (PYD) rule.
 
Gendarmerie officials on patrol duty in the Bakacak region of ?anl?urfa's Akçakale noticed the four abandoned backpacks in a field. 

Turkey strikes Kurdish PYD in Syria twice: Turkish PM

The Turkish army has hit the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in northern Syria twice for violating the red line Turkey has imposed on the western part of the Euphrates River, the Turkish prime minister has said. 

"We said: 'The PYD will not pass to the west of the Euphrates. We'll hit them if they do.' And we hit them twice.

PYD names Tal Abyad part of its 'canton'

Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Syria has incorporated a mixed town they captured from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) into territory they claim in the country?s north.

According to the PYD, Tal Abyad?s local council agreed Oct. 21 their town would be ruled by ?autonomous administration, formally part of the autonomous administration in the Kobane canton.?

Analyst: Both PKK and AKP want HDP to be weakened

The Middle Eastern Studies Center of top-ranking Harvard University hosted Turkish journalist-author Cengiz Çandar last week. Çandar spoke in the seminar "Understanding and Misunderstanding Turkey and the Middle East," with American academics bombarding Çandar with questions to unravel the dramatic changes in Turkey since the June 7 election.

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