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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Stefanie Dekker

Turkey boosting military presence along border near Syria's Afrin

Turkey boosting military presence along border near Syria's Afrin

The Turkish army is steadily increasing its presence along a stretch of the Syrian border around the northern city of Afrin.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been threatening to attack Afrin - controlled by the Syrian Kurdish armed group YPG - for almost a week.

Turkish troops are present inside Syria on its southern edge and to the east are Turkish-backed Syrian rebels, so Afrin is effectively surrounded.

Al Jazeera's Stefanie Dekker reports from Antakya in Turkey, near the Syrian border.

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