The President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, called on Ankara to exercise restraint in the early hours of the Turkish operation in north-eastern Syria (see EUROPE B12343A13).
A few minutes earlier, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had announced that the Turkish armed forces and the Syrian national army (which is not the Syrian army) had just launched Operation Peace Spring against “PKK/YPG and Daesh terrorists”, with the objective of “neutralizing terrorist...