Zeynep AzizTurkish authorities detained senior members of the national medical association after it criticised the Afrin offensive and called for peace.
Zeynep AzizRockets fired from the Afrin area hit Turkey’s border province of Kilis in January 2018, killing two people at a mosque and wounding others.
Zeynep AzizTurkish aircraft began striking Afrin on 20 January 2018 as Ankara opened Operation Olive Branch against the Kurdish YPG in northwestern Syria.
Zeynep AzizTurkey extended emergency rule for another three months in January 2018, continuing extraordinary powers introduced after the failed July 2016 coup.
Zeynep AzizTurkey’s Constitutional Court found rights violations in the detention of journalists Mehmet Altan and Şahin Alpay, but lower courts initially refused to implement the ruling.
Zeynep AzizPresidents Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Emmanuel Macron met in Paris on 5 January 2018, placing Syria, defence cooperation and democratic standards at the centre of a consequential bilateral visit.
