Two Turkish troops killed as helicopter downed

Two Turkish infantrymen gain died after their helicopter used to be shot down during Ankara’s navy operation against Syrian Kurdish fighters in northern Syria.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim launched the deaths in a televised contend with on Saturday. 

Earlier, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had said an military helicopter had been « shot down » strategy the southern Hatay province.

« These items will happen, we’re in a battle … We would lose a helicopter, but they’ll pay the cost for this, » he said in Istanbul. 

The dispute-flee Anadolu company, citing the Turkish military, said the ATAK airplane crashed at around 1pm local time (10:000 GMT). 

Turkey opened a brand unusual entrance within the multi-sided Syrian civil battle, when it launched an air and ground offensive against Kurdish YPG fighters on its southern border with Syria final month. 

The YPG – professional, armed and supported by the US to fight against the Islamic Articulate of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) – adjust a swathe of land in northern Syria. 

Turkey considers the YPG as an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Staff Collect together (PKK), which has fought a bloody, a long time-long armed campaign.

Al Jazeera’s Jamal Elshayyal, reporting from Gaziantep on the Turkey-Syria border, said the battle used to be « escalating every day ». 

Bigger than 20 Turkish infantrymen and a hundred and fifty gain been killed since the navy offensive started, he said. Seven civilians gain also misplaced their lives.

SOURCE: Al Jazeera and data agencies