The state-run news agency Anadolu said the operation began at around 4am local time.
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Hurriyet reported on its website that Turkey’s military responded by launching 40 rounds, hitting four IS target.
White and grey plumes of smoke rose from atop the hills of Jarabulus, visible from the Turkish town of Karkamis across the border.
Several suspects were detained and their addresses searched.
Turkey, as before, advocates the territorial integrity of Syria, he said. Turkey has also reached out to Russian Federation and Iran in hopes of crafting a regional plan to bring the Syrian conflict to an end.
He also added: “You will not silence our calls to prayer, you will not make this country kneel, you will not chain this people”.
The activist group, which tracks the war through a network of local residents and fighters, said Turkish tanks and anti-mine vehicles crossed into Syria and were heading to Jarablus on Wednesday morning.
According to military sources, some 70 targets were destroyed only by the artillery fire and tanks which were stationed on Turkish soil.
On Tuesday, US officials confirmed they had received an extradition request for the cleric – and but they said it was on grounds of alleged crimes unrelated to the coup bid, though they did not clarify.
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Turkish Armed Forces is responding to artillery fire and carrying out airstrikes against Daesh elements in Jarablus – part of Aleppo governorate – in a retaliatory strike, officials said.
Nasser Haj Mansour, an SDF official on the Syrian side of the border, said the fighters gathering in Turkey include “terrorists” as well as Turkish special forces.
An opposition fighter said around 1,500 fighters were now gathered at a location in Turkey on standby to take part.
Turkish jets pounded ISIS positions in Jarabulus and tanks fired across the border into the town, military sources told Reuters. The United States is asking for evidence against the cleric and asking that Turkey allow the extradition process to take its course.
Ankara sees Muslim’s PYD, which has also battled Islamic State with US backing, as a threat because of its links with Kurdish militants waging their own insurgency on Turkish soil since 1984.
Turkey’s actions have enraged the Kurds, which have frequently accused Ankara of supporting Isil by turning a blind eye to foreign fighters crossing its border to reach the jihadists’ self-declared “caliphate”.
Biden is scheduled to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim. “All peoples have the right to self-defence and we don’t care of what they say about Turkey”.
The minister also said Turkey had killed some 650 IS militants in strikes carried out from a military base in northern Iraq, without providing a time frame.
About the operation’s duration, he says: “Until when? Until this threat is removed and the terror threat on our border disappears”.
A Turkish media report says a small number of Turkish special forces have crossed into Syria as part of a Turkish operation to rid a Syrian border town of Islamic State group militants.
Turkish forces have been exchanging shellfire with IS positions in the Jarablus area since Monday.
Turkish forces dispatched warplanes and artillery during the operation, aiming to clear the borders from the Islamic State militants, halt the new wave of refugees and deliver humanitarian aid to civilians in Jarablus – the last significant town held by the IS near the border between Syria and Turkey, Xinhua news agency reported.
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Mr Cavusolgu said Turkey would support twin operations stretching from the Syrian town of Afrin in the north-west, which is already controlled by Kurdish forces, to Jarablus, in the central north, which is held by the Islamic State group.
