Turkish tanks storm northern Syria to fight ISIS… but how will Assad react to a sworn enemy invading his country?
Turkey’s military forces have reportedly defeated the death cult in the border town of Kaklijeh and are now fighting the depraved extremists in the city of Jarablus
TURKISH tanks have rolled into Syria in a bid to crush ISIS with President Assad’s government calling the invasion a “breach of sovereignty.”
Around twenty armoured military vehicles have crossed into the war torn country as Turkey launches a military operation to smash the terror group.
And according to Sky sources, Turkish forces, including their allies the Free Syrian Army, are reportedly fighting the depraved death cult in ISIS-held Jarablus after crushing them in the town of Kaklijeh.
The Turkish tanks had been firing on extremist targets from across the border into Jarablus since early Wednesday in the operation, named Euphrates Shield.
Turkish fighter jets - supported by US-led coalition aircraft - also destroyed militant targets near the border town.
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Terror thugs reportedly fired mortar rounds in retaliation hitting the Turkish border town of Karkamis, which has been evacuated along with six other towns along the border.
After a spate recent of terrorist attacks, Turkish counter-terrorism police also raided several homes in Istanbul, detaining several ISIS members in the early hours of Wednesday.
Interior Minister Efkan Ala said Turkey "cannot sit and watch", adding that it was Turkey's "legal right, it is within its authority" to act.
But on Syrian state TV, Syria's Foreign Ministry reportedly said the invasion was a "breach of sovereignty" and that Turkey wants to replace ISIS with "other terrorist groups".
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed the operation was to target the warped extremist group and the Kurdish PYD, saying he wanted to stop "frequent attacks".
Erdogan said Turkey was seeking to "remove the shadow cast on the religion of Islam by Islamic State".
He said: "Nobody can see the Syrian issue independent from Turkey's internal affairs.
"The road to solving the terror problem passes through a solution to problems in Syria and in Iraq...Turkey will overcome threats originating from Syria."
Turkey also considers the Syrian Kurdish groups, the PYD and the People's Protection Units (YPG), to be terrorist groups trying to carve out their own region in Syria despite them also being opposed to ISIS.
Saleh Muslim, co-president of the PYD tweeted after Turkey's operation was confirmed that "Turkey is in Syrian quagmire, will be defeated as Daesh (will be)".
Redur Xelil, spokesman for the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said the invasion was "blatant aggression in Syrian internal affairs".
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