Reuters ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey-led forces will begin besieging the Syrian town of Afrin in the coming days as part of Turkey's operation to drive the Kurdish YPG militia out of the region in northwest Syria, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday. Turkey began an operation last month with allied Syrian rebels against the YPG, which Ankara sees as a terrorist group and an extension of the militant PKK which has fought a three-decade insurgency in southeast Turkey.NOW WATCH: JIM ROSS: Here's who will take over WWE after Vince McMahonSee Also:Turkey proposes the US push Syria's Kurds east of the Euphrates and station Turkish and US forces together in ManbijKremlin denies Russian contractors badly defeated in Syria have any connection to Russian governmentPentagon's budget proposal has enraged Turkey, which thinks it will give $550 million to Syrian KurdsSEE ALSO: As ISIS loses ground in the Middle East, its fighters are coming to the Philippines
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