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ANKARA, Jan. 21-- Turkish ground troops entered Syria's Afrin Sunday on the second day of an offensive against U.S-backed Kurdish militia which should be wrapped up soon, said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey on Saturday launched the operation dubbed "Operation Olive Branch" with intense air raids and shelling seeking to oust from the Afrin region of northern Syria the Peoples' Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara considers as a terror group affiliated to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Ankara has been angered by the YPG's expansion in northern Syria, fearing that it may create a de facto state at its border and declared its military offensive as a measure to protect local populations in Afrin from the clutches of sectarian Kurdish ambitions. | 
