“Our security forces have fought and will continue to fight shoulder-to-shoulder until all terrorists are routed, and our borders are secured,” Chief of Staff General Hulusi Akar said in remarks carried by the state-run Anadolu news agency.
Akar spoke after visiting troops in the Turkish border town of Karkamis that lies opposite the Syrian town of Jarablus which was liberated from ISIS last month by Ankara-backed Syrian opposition fighters.
On August 24, Turkey launched an ambitious campaign inside Syria dubbed “Euphrates Shield”, sending in tanks and special forces to support opposition fighters in a bid to remove ISIS and Kurdish terrorists from its frontier.
Several Turkish soldiers have been killed by ISIS rocket attacks in northern Syria this month, and Turkey blamed the death of another soldier last month on an attack by Kurdish militiamen.
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