One Turkish Soldier Killed, Five Injured During Military Operation in Syria
17:58 20.11.2016
One Turkish soldier was killed during Ankara's Euphrates Shield operation to liberate northern Syria from terrorists, and five were injured in an attack by the Daesh militants, the Turkish General Staff said on Sunday.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – On August 24, Turkish forces, backed by US-led coalition aircraft, began a military operation dubbed Euphrates Shield to clear the Syrian border town of Jarabulus and the surrounding area of the Daesh, outlawed in Russia and many other countries. As Jarabulus was retaken, the joint forces of Ankara, the coalition and Syrian rebels continued the offensive southwest.
"As a result of IS [Daesh] attack, two of our comrades were injured by shrapnel near the village of Al-Guz, as a result of a road accident…one of our comrades was killed and three wounded," the Turkish military said.
The operation has been widely criticized both by the Syrian Kurds and Damascus accusing Ankara of violating Syria's territorial integrity.
© Sputnik
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