Turkey will continue military operations in Northern areas of Syria and Iraq, told Turkey's leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, delivering a speech with an electoral program to the activists of the ruling Party of justice and development in Istanbul.

According to the head of the country, they will not stop until, as long as fighters "from Ayn al-Arab to Hasaka in Northern Syria from Sinjar to Kandil in Iraq" will not be destroyed. These territories are Kurdish, which Turkey considers a terrorist.

According to the Turkish leader, Turkey is gradually becoming the most powerful country in the region and in the near future will be included in the number of major players on the world political arena, while attempts of redrawing borders of countries and the desire of certain forces to form a new status quo in the region will be broken on the will of Turkey and Turkish people.

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