Turkey has long threatened an attack on the Kurdish fighters in Syria whom Ankara considers terrorists allied with a Kurdish insurgency within Turkey. But Trump also threatened to "totally destroy and obliterate" Turkey's economy if the Turkish push into Syria went too far. Republican critics and others said he was sacrificing a US ally, the Syrian Kurdish forces, and undermining American credibility. Turkey aimed to "neutralize" Syrian Kurdish militants in northeast Syria and to "liberate the local population from the yoke of the armed thugs," Altun wrote. The TV didn't mention the expected Turkish offensive into Syria or elaborate on the reasons for the drill.

Source: The Telegraph October 09, 2019 11:48 UTC