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Kurdish Fighters Recapture Villages from ISIL as Turkey Infiltrates into Syria
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Kurdish fighters have managed to recapture a number of villages from Takfiri ISIL terrorists during an offensive in Syria's northeastern province of Hassakeh, sources say.
Fighters from the Kurdish People's Protection Units [YPG] managed to advance and took over some 20 villages, farms, and hamlets in the area.
The operation, which began late on Saturday, was aimed at retaking the militant-held town of Tal Hamis near the Turkish border and its surrounding areas.
"This is one of the YPG's biggest recent operations," said Newaf Khalil, a spokesman for the Kurdish Democratic Union Party.
Earlier, Turkish tanks backed by drones and reconnaissance planes infiltrated into Syria overnight to evacuate several dozen Turkish soldiers guarding a tomb surrounded by "ISIL" militants.
The Turkish troops, reportedly numbering around 40, were guarding the mausoleum complex of Suleyman Shah, grandfather of the Ottoman empire's founder Osman I, which under a 1920s treaty is considered sovereign Turkish territory.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that 572 Turkish soldiers using 39 tanks, 57 armored vehicles and 100 other military vehicles were involved in the operation called Shah Firat [Shah Euphrates].
The military said there had been no clashes during the "initial stage" of the operation, the first such ground incursion by Turkish troops into Syria, but that one soldier had been killed in an accident.
Flanked by the chief of the military and the defense minister, Davutoglu told a news conference that Turkey had not sought permission or assistance for the mission but had informed allies in the coalition against "ISIL" once it began.
He said on in a statement that the mission had resulted in the successful repatriation of the soldiers who had guarded the tomb perched on the banks of the Euphrates river, as well as the remains of Suleyman Shah himself, which had been temporarily moved to a new site within Syria north of the village of Esmesi close to the Turkish border.
"The remains of [Suleyman Shah] have been temporarily repatriated and will be reburied inside Syria at a later date," he added.
Davutoglu congratulated the Turkish army on the success of an operation that he said had posed "considerable potential risks."
"This was an extremely successful operation with no loss to our rights under international law."
The Syrian government has consistently accused the NATO member of harboring, financing, training, and arming militants since violence erupted in March 2011, which says played a role in the formation and expansion of extremist groups like "ISIL".
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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