President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Saturday that Turkey was conducting a "landmark" counterterror operation in Syria's Idlib.
Speaking at the Justice and Development Party's consultative meeting in western Turkey's Afyonkarahisar, the president said: "A landmark operation is underway in Idlib, we won't allow a terror corridor on our Syrian border."
Erdoğan said that Turkey aimed to provide security for Idlib by extending the area cleared from terrorists in the Operation Euphrates Shield.
The president also underlined that Turkey would not allow separatist operations in Iraq and Syria, just as "we haven't allowed such operations within our border."