{"id":60197,"date":"2018-03-02T06:22:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T06:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=60197"},"modified":"2018-03-02T06:22:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T06:22:38","slug":"8-turkish-soldiers-martyred-in-syrias-afrin-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/8-turkish-soldiers-martyred-in-syrias-afrin-region\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Turkish soldiers martyred in Syria\u2019s Afrin region"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>8 Turkish soldiers were martyred on Thursday during Operation Olive Branch, another 13 soldiers wounded, says Turkish General Staf<\/h2>\n<p>Eight Turkish soldiers were martyred in Syria\u2019s northwestern region of Afrin on Thursday as the Turkish-led Operation Olive Branch continues in the region, according to separate Turkish General Staff statements.<\/p>\n<p>In two statements, the Turkish army also said another thirteen soldiers were wounded during the operation.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch on Jan. 20, to remove the PYD\/PKK and Daesh terrorists from Afrin. According to the Turkish General Staff, the operation aims to establish security and stability along Turkey&#8217;s borders and the region as well as protect Syrians from terrorist cruelty and oppression.<\/p>\n<p>The operation is being carried out under the framework of Turkey\u2019s rights based on international law, UN Security Council resolutions, its self-defense rights under the UN charter, and respect for Syria&#8217;s territorial integrity, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The military has also said that only terrorist targets are being destroyed and the &#8220;utmost care&#8221; is being taken to avoid harming any civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Afrin has been a major hideout for the PYD\/PKK since July 2012, when the Syrian Assad regime left the city to the terror group without a fight.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 Turkish soldiers were martyred on Thursday during Operation Olive Branch, another 13 soldiers wounded, says Turkish General Staf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118,174],"tags":[77861,77866,3219,77332,10853,9002],"class_list":["post-60197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-turkey-daily","tag-afrin","tag-operation-olive-branch","tag-pkk","tag-pyd","tag-soldier","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}