Turkey entered Syria to end al-Assad’s rule: President Erdoğan
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The Turkish military launched its operations in Syria to end the rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Nov. 29.

“In my estimation, nearly 1 million people have died in Syria. These deaths are still continuing without exception for children, women and men. Where is the United Nations? What is it doing? Is it in Iraq? No. We preached patience but could not endure in the end and had to enter Syria together with the Free Syrian Army [FSA],” Erdoğan said at the first Inter-Parliamentary Jerusalem Platform Symposium in Istanbul.

“Why did we enter? We do not have an eye on Syrian soil. The issue is to provide lands to their real owners. That is to say we are there for the establishment of justice. We entered there to end the rule of the tyrant al-Assad who terrorizes with state terror. [We didn’t enter] for any other reason,” the president said.

On Aug. 24, the Turkish Armed Forces launched an operation in Syria, the Euphrates Shield operation, with FSA fighters to clear the country’s southern border of both the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) forces, which Ankara considers as a terrorist group linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

Last week, a total of six Turkish troops, of them four in a suspected Syrian government attack, and two in ISIL attacks, were killed in three separate attacks from Nov. 24 to 26.

Turkish jets kill 11 ISIL militants

As part of the ongoing operation, Turkish Air Forces killed 11 ISIL militants in air strikes carried out on four shelters used by the jihadists and two armored vehicles in northern Syria on Nov. 28, the military announced on Nov. 29.

The air strikes targeted the Baratah, Dana and Zarzur regions as part of the Euphrates Shield operation. It said two ISIL vehicles were also targeted by armed drones in the region.

Erdoğan also said the U.N. could not provide justice with its current structure, suggesting that all continents and all belief groups around the world should be represented at the Security Council apart from the five permanent members. The president has constantly voiced his criticism on the structure of the Security Council, saying “the world is bigger than five,” referring to the number of permanent members.

As Turkey’s operation inside Syria continues, an offensive by the Syrian government with the help of its allies on the besieged parts of eastern Aleppo continued on Nov. 29, pushing rebels to pull back to a more defensible front line after losing control of a key district.

16,000 people displaced in Aleppo, says UN......

How is this gonna end - with Russia siding Al-Assad? A World War 111 in the making?

To friends of Assad, it is easy to spark off a war, but the direction the war goes can't be predicted. Alleged killing of Syrian protesters by Assad forces started the whole thing that is causing the world this headache today.