{"id":64337,"date":"2019-10-16T08:44:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T07:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=64337"},"modified":"2019-10-16T08:44:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T07:44:43","slug":"turkey-neutralizes-637-ypg-pkk-terrorists-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkey-neutralizes-637-ypg-pkk-terrorists-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey neutralizes 637 YPG\/PKK terrorists in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>As Turkey&#8217;s anti-terror operation in northern Syria continues with great success, the number of &#8220;neutralized&#8221; YPG\/PKK terrorists has climbed to 637, according to the country&#8217;s National Defense Ministry.<\/h2>\n<p>The announcement came via the ministry&#8217;s official Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish authorities often use the word &#8220;neutralized&#8221; in their statements to imply that the terrorists in question either surrendered or were killed or captured.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey launched Operation Peace Spring on Oct. 9 to eliminate terrorists from northern Syria in order to secure Turkey\u2019s borders, aid in the safe return of Syrian refugees, and ensure Syria\u2019s territorial integrity.<\/p>\n<p>Ankara wants to clear northern Syria east of the Euphrates River of the terrorist PKK and its Syrian offshoot, the PYD\/YPG.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey has said the PKK and the YPG\/PYD constitute the biggest threats to Syria\u2019s future, jeopardizing the country\u2019s territorial integrity and unitary structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Turkey&#8217;s anti-terror operation in northern Syria continues with great success, the number of &#8220;neutralized&#8221; YPG\/PKK terrorists has climbed to 637, according to the country&#8217;s National Defense Ministry. The announcement came via the ministry&#8217;s official Twitter account. Turkish authorities often use the word &#8220;neutralized&#8221; in their statements to imply that the terrorists in question either &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,1,118,37,174],"tags":[9002,77182],"class_list":["post-64337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-middle-east","category-turkey-daily","tag-syria","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64337","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=64337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}