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UN says ‘preparing for the worst’ from Turkey’s Syria operation

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has today said that a long-threatened offensive to ‘clear terrorists’ from the region could ‘come any night without warning’. – EPA pic, October 7, 2019.

THE United Nations said today it was “preparing for the worst” in northeast Syria after the United States said it would step aside to allow for Turkish military operations in the area. “We don’t know what is going to happen… we are preparing for the worst,” UN regional humanitarian coordinator for Syria, Panos Moumtzis, said in Geneva, stressing that there were “a lot of unanswered questions” about the consequences of the operation.

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