Autonomous regions

Four Turkish soldiers were killed on March 22 in eastern Turkey and Syria's northwestern district of Afrin, officials have said. 

Turkey is "seriously" looking into looting claims in Syria's Afrin city center, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on March 22.

Turkey has established 29 aid distribution centers in Syria's Afrin region to provide food and personal care items to the civilians, the country's Deputy Prime Minister Recep Akdağ said on March 21.

The Turkish Red Crescent is ready to provide humanitarian aid to all 323,000 people living in Syria's Afrin, its head Kerem Kınık has said.

Turkey and Iraq are in close talks for a potential joint struggle against the presence of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Iraqi territories, the prime minister has said, a day after Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu announced that Iraq was the Turkish military’s next target after the ongoing Afrin operation.

Around 350,000 people who have taken refuge in Turkey will return to their homes in Syria’s Afrin region after the end of the operation, the Turkish prime minister said on Feb. 25.

The head of the Turkish Medical Association (TTB), who was detained by police on Jan. 30 over his criticism of Turkey’s ongoing military operation into the Afrin region of Syria, defended himself in a statement through his lawyer on Feb. 1.

Turkey has dismissed France’s cautionary remarks about its military operation in Syria’s northern district of Afrin as “insults.”

Turkey on Thursday dismissed cautionary remarks from France about its military operation in northern Syria as "insults", signaling continued strain between Ankara and its NATO allies over the incursion, Reuters reports.

Turkey’s military operation in the Afrin district of Syria could finish in 15 days at most if Turkey wasn’t concerned about the civilians there, Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli has said in the Turkish Parliament.