ISTANBUL President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that Turkey was not looking to seize any Syrian home despite stepping up its attacks against Kwar-cornices in the war-torn country's north.
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Erdogan's comment on Turkish air strikes Turkish air strikes on a Syrian border post run by governance forces reportedly killed 17 fighters.
A war examiner said that both Kurds who man some of the Syrian border posts and governance forces were killed in the Turkish raids.
The sanctioned Syrian news agency said three government dogfaces failed.
Turkey said it was responding to a strike on its positions along the border that killed two dogfaces.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that Turkey was not looking to seize any Syrian territory despite stepping up its attacks against Kurdish forces in the war-torn country’s north.https://t.co/FmDDCDrk8p
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The exchange of fire marked one of the largest escalations since Ankara and Damascus traded attacks in 2020.
Erdogan appeared to try and calm the pressures in the commentary to journalists on board his return flight from his first wartime visit to Ukraine.
" We don't have eyes on the home of Syria because the people of Syria are our sisters," Turkish media quoted Erdogan as saying.
" The governance must be apprehensive of this."
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Erdogan's visit to Ukraine came two weeks after he flew to Sochi for addresses with Russian President Vladimir Putin that also covered Syria.
Putin's support was necessary for helping Syrian President Bashar al-Assad survive an 11- time conflict against recusant groups backed in part by Turkey.
Erdogan said he told Putin that he wanted to cooperate more nearly with Russia in northern Syrian regions where Ankara has been targeting Kurds it views as" terrorists".
" We're in contact with Russia on every step that we take in Syria," Erdogan said.
The border clash came with fears mounting that Turkey may be preparing to launch its fourth cross-border descent against Kurdish forces since 2016.
Erdogan accuses the Kurdish fighters in Syria-- confederated with the United States against Islamic State jihadists-- of outlawed zealots with links to groups waging a decades-long insurrection against the Turkish state.
He repeated his banner on Friday that Turkish forces could strike Syrian Kurds" suddenly one night".
But he also suggested that Turkey may be open to a possible reproach with Assad after fiercely opposing his governance.
" There should be no resentment in politics," Erdogan was quoted as saying.
He refocused out that Turkey had made up with its one-time rivals Egypt and the United Arab Emirates in the once many times.
" We need to secure farther way with Syria," he said without completely explaining what those might involve.
Turkish Foreign Minister Cavusoglu sparked demurrers in northern Syrian regions under Ankara's control last week by calling for a" conciliation" between recusant groups it backs and Assad.
He also revealed last time holding his first brief meeting with a Syrinoreign minister in 2011.
" You should always be at peace," Erdogan said on Friday." You should have the occasion to meet at any time."