Turkey-Syria offensive: Turkish president Erdogan branded ‘assassin’ as assault continues

FRENCH National Assembly member Jean-Christophe Lagarde tore into Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday, branding him an “assassin” over his controversial decision to launch a cross-border offensive against Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria. Mr Erdogan “is an assassin,” M Lagarde told France’s Europe 1 radio, as he accused the Turkish leader of attempting to “annex” Syria’s north.