{"id":20709,"date":"2018-11-01T19:23:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T19:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20709"},"modified":"2018-11-01T19:23:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T19:23:56","slug":"260000-syrians-have-returned-to-euphrates-shield-area-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20709","title":{"rendered":"260,000 Syrians have returned to \u2018Euphrates Shield\u2019 area \u2014 Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1397521\/middle-east\" readability=\"41\">\n<p>\nANKARA: A total of 260,000 Syrian nationals have returned to a swathe of land in northern Syria where Turkey carried out a cross-border operation dubbed \u201cEuphrates Shield,\u201d Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Thursday.<br \/>Turkey launched Euphrates Shield in 2016 to drive away Daesh militants and the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia from its border with Syria. Ankara regards the US-backed YPG as a terrorist organization. The operation ended in 2017.<br \/>Turkey hosts more than 3.5 million Syrian refugees who fled the conflict in their homeland. Some Turks view them as an economic burden and a threat to jobs.<br \/>\u201cAs a result of the infrastructure work and security and stability in the region provided by the Turkish Armed Forces, around 260,000 Syrian nationals have returned to the Euphrates Shield Operation area,\u201d Akar said in a speech.<br \/>Akar also said Turkey\u2019s operations in northern Iraq would continue until what he described as the terrorist threat to Turkish territory had ended. He was speaking after a week of airstrikes in the area that have targeted the bases of Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party (PKK) militants.<br \/>On Tuesday the Turkish military killed seven Kurdish militants in air strikes in northern Iraq as they were preparing to launch an attack on regions were Turkish bases are located, it said in a statement on Twitter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA: A total of 260,000 Syrian nationals have returned to a swathe of land in northern Syria where Turkey carried out a cross-border operation dubbed \u201cEuphrates Shield,\u201d Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Thursday.Turkey launched Euphrates Shield in 2016 to drive away Daesh militants and the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia from its border with Syria.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}