According to the Anadolu news agency, 300 Turkish commandos were deployed to Syria to join Operation Euphrates Shield which aims to drive members of the so-called Islamic State and Kurdish forces out of northern Syria.

All of them, as noted by the news agency, are servicemen of the 11th Brigade of the Turkish Land Forces, which is based in the Denizli Province.

The military, according to the agency, has already arrived at the Syrian-Turkish border.

The Turkish Military’s Operation, Euphrates Shield, began in August.

In late November, the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, explained that this operation is carried out in Syria so as "to stop the reign of the tyrant Assad," as the Syrian leader, according to Erdogan, "practices state terror."

Later, in early December, the Turkish leader specified that Euphrates Shield is noted aimed at any "person or country, but only against terrorist organizations." Erdogan went on to say that, "No one should ever doubt this, as it has repeat multiple times our one and only aim is to fight terrorist groups and no one should comment on the way we do it or try to disrupt the operation."

  Turkey, Syrian Conflict

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