As 'operation olivebranch' enters the third week of fighting, Turkish Army and allied Syrian opposition and semi-jihadist forces have progressed little into kurdish dominated, SDF-held, Afrin kanton.
While the Syrian Arab Army lets SDF reinforcement troops from Manbij pass SAA-territory, Russia has still not made clear whether Afrin kantons airspace is subject to SAA-airdefence measures against Turkeys severe bombing activities.
The operations is getting significantly more expensive for Turkey to continue as no significant progress is made in Afrin.
Mutual reports on life- and material-losses suggest that Turkey will have problems to financially sustain this conflict:
Turkish Army:
- 80 dead soldiers, 200 wounded
- 3 Leopard A2 tanks destroyed by SDF, each 2 million €
- 3 armored vehicles destroyed
- T-129 combat helicopter shot down by SDF, 40 million $
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