Turkey's Erdogan warns pro-Kurdish not to protest Afrin operation

Turkey's Erdogan warns pro-Kurdish not to protest Afrin operation

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"Know that wherever you go out on the streets our security forces are on your necks," Erdogan said, referring to members of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), parliament's second-largest opposition.

Erdogan was speaking to thousands of supporters in the northwestern city of Bursa. Turkish ground forces pushed into Syria's Afrin province on Sunday, part of Ankara's operation targeting a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia at its southern border.

(Reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu and Ece Toksabay; Writing by David Dolan; Editing by Mattthew Mpoke Bigg)

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