Turkey continues military deployments to Syrian border

Commandos in ten buses have been transferred to the Hassa and Kırıkhan districts of Turkey's southeastern Hatay province as a supplementary force to military units along the Syrian border as the Turkish operation in Afrin looms. Artillery shots fired toward Afrin were heard in Hatay's border neighborhoods while rising smoke was seen billowing from the region. In the Sugediği neighborhood of Hassa district, people hung Turkish flags from their houses and from the minarets of mosques.