Reuters - President Tayyip Erdogan�s remarks about Turkey�s military and its rebel allies capturing northern Syria�s Afrin town refer to the completion of the town�s encirclement by Wednesday evening, not its fall, a source in Erdogan�s office said.
In speech, Erdogan had said he hoped Turkish forces would completely capture the town of Afrin by Wednesday evening.


�The �I hope Afrin will completely fall by tonight� sentence in our president�s speech should be understood as �The circle of encirclement will be completed by tonight�,� the source said.





Reporting by Tulay Karadeniz; Writing by Tuvan Gumrukcu; Editing by David Dolan