Turkey’s incursion into Syria will stretch from Kobani in the west to Hasaka in the east, going some 30-35 km into Syrian territory, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, and the town of Ras al Ain was already under Turkish control.
Addressing a news conference in Istanbul, Erdogan said the Turkish-led forces had also besieged the Syrian border town of Tel Abyad, west of Ras al Ain, in its fight against the YPG Kurdish militia, which Ankara says is a terrorist organization.
“We focused first on the 120-km (75-mile) area between Ras al Ain and Tel Abyad. Thus we will divide the
