Turkey's president, in his strongest warning yet, threatened Saturday to launch a military operation into northeastern Syria, where US troops are deployed and have been trying to defuse tensions between Washington's two allies Turkey and the Syrian Kurds.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan's threats were a warning that a US-Turkish deal to secure Syria's troubled border with Turkey was faltering.
He said a Turkish military operation against the US-backed Kurdish forces could begin "maybe today, maybe tomorrow."
The US European Command tweeted Saturday apparently in response to the Turkish threats saying the US and Turkish militaries were already working "to address Turkey's legitimate security concerns."
Erdogan said his country wants to send 2 million Syrian refugees now in Turkey to the area it has called a "safe zone."
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