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“All villages have been cleared from terrorists. Afrin is under full control [of Turkish Armed Forces],” the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces was quoted as saying by the NTV broadcaster.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The General Staff said a total of 3,733 “terrorists” had been “neutralized” since the start of the so-called Operation Olive Branch against Afrin, Turkish paper Yeni \u015eafak reported.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Turkish authorities often use the word ‘neutralized in their statements to imply the terrorists in question either surrendered, were killed or captured, it noted.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Neither Damascus nor the local officials have commented on the report so far.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Turkey began the operation on January 20 to cleanse the northern Syrian border of the US-backed Kurdish militants of the People's Protection Units (YPG), whom it associates with the homegrown Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighting for autonomy on Turkish soil.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The Turkish military says it has exercised “utmost care” not to harm civilians.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based monitor, however, said earlier in the week that more than 280 civilians have been killed since the onset of the operation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Damascus views the operation as an act of aggression and has called for the immediate withdrawal of the Turkish forces.<\/p>","content_source":"","content_url":"","content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2018-03-24 18:23:24","content_date_finish":"2018-03-24 18:23:24","content_date_register":"2018-03-24 18:24:26","content_date_last_edit":"2018-03-24 18:24:48","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"0","content_show_related_img":"0","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"1","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"0","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","old_id":"0","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"2711183056","attach_date_register":"2018-03-24 18:24:43","attach_id":"419676","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"650","attach_img_height":"365","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"1","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"222","visit_date_last":"2025-05-14 13:20:03","attach_title":"Turkish military says took full control of Syria\u2019s Afrin from Kurdish militants 2","node_title":"news","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":122, \"left\":2, \"right\":53}]"}]]