Operation Olive Branch

In January 2018, the Turkish armed forces began a campaign in northern Syria, officially targeting Kurdish and Islamist factions. Onur Kurç and Tayfun Yaşar examine Turkey’s latest major military operation. NEWS Combat report F-4E 2020 77-0285 of 111 Filo ‘Panter’ carries an example of the Israeli-made Rafael Popeye air-to-ground missile. It has been rumoured that these ageing weapons are soon to be phased out of THK service, to be replaced by indigenous precision weapons. The relationship between Syria and Turkey,