President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made a statement after a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers.
President Erdogan said: “Only in the last 5 days during our air operations in Syria and Iraq, 114 goals have been affected and 78 terrorists were neutralized.”
The president continued the words: “During the operations of our police and gendarmerie, since the beginning of the year, 465 people related to terrorism were detained.”
“We instructed our security units to destroy all the terrorist elements they identified, regardless of who is nearby, around or behind them,” he said.
According to the head of state, from January 12, the national intelligence organization has destroyed a total of 60 objects of critical infrastructure and ammunition warehouses belonging to a terrorist organization.
President Erdogan said: “The decisive strategy of Turkey to destroy terrorism at its origins is most worried about those who want to create” terrorist “in our region. We will not stop until all the nests of the terrorists created with insidious intentions in Syria are destroyed , from Tel Rifate to Aillevrab, from Haseki to Munbiga. “
President Erdogan touched on cross -border operations of the Turkish Armed Forces: “This violated the calculations of those who constantly change the cards on the agenda, and those who impose a new Sevre to our region.”
The head of state emphasized that anti -terrorist operations will continue: “If the data is not fulfilled to us, then no one can object to Turkey to take the necessary measures to ensure its own security.”