{"id":4396,"date":"2018-10-29T22:03:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T22:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4396"},"modified":"2018-10-29T22:03:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T22:03:50","slug":"turkish-forces-bombarded-ypg-militia-positions-east-of-euphrates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/10\/29\/turkish-forces-bombarded-ypg-militia-positions-east-of-euphrates\/","title":{"rendered":"TURKISH FORCES BOMBARDED YPG MILITIA POSITIONS EAST OF EUPHRATES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/TURKISH-ARMY-SYRIA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1130\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/TURKISH-ARMY-SYRIA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/TURKISH-ARMY-SYRIA.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/TURKISH-ARMY-SYRIA-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/TURKISH-ARMY-SYRIA-560x303.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/TURKISH-ARMY-SYRIA-260x141.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/TURKISH-ARMY-SYRIA-160x87.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Middle East Monitor<\/p>\n<p>Turkish forces bombarded Kurdish YPG militia positions on the eastern shore of the Euphrates River in northern Syria, Reuters reports.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes two days after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan issued what he said was a \u201cfinal warning\u201d to those who would endanger Turkey\u2019s borders, saying Ankara was determined to focus its attention on Syrian Kurdish fighters east of the Euphrates.<\/p>\n<p>The bombardment targeted the Zor Magar area to the west of northern Syria\u2019s Ayn al-Arab region and was aimed at preventing \u201cterrorist activities\u201d, Anadolu reported.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey considers the YPG militia a terrorist organisation and an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party (PKK), which has led an insurgency in Turkey for more than three decades.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20181029-turkish-forces-bombarded-syrian-kurdish-ypg-militia-positions-east-of-euphrates\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Middle East Monitor Turkish forces bombarded Kurdish YPG militia positions on the eastern shore of the Euphrates River in northern Syria, Reuters reports. The move comes two days after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan issued what he said was a \u201cfinal warning\u201d to those who would endanger Turkey\u2019s borders, saying Ankara was determined to focus&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/10\/29\/turkish-forces-bombarded-ypg-militia-positions-east-of-euphrates\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TURKISH FORCES BOMBARDED YPG MILITIA POSITIONS EAST OF EUPHRATES<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4397,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396\/revisions\/4397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}