On January 20, Turkey launched so-called Operation Olive Branch in the northern Syrian enclave of Afrin. Turkish ground troops crossed the border into Syria alongside thousands of Turkey-backed Syrian rebels. The Turkish government has stated that its goal is to root out an armed militia called the People's Protection Units (YPG), which it views as a threat to its security. Turkey sees the YPG as an extension of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has struggled for the rights of the Kurdish people in Turkey for more than three decades. After two months of fighting, on March 18, Turkey announced the city of Afrin has been taken, and Turkish president Erdogan suggested that the current military campaign could be extended extend to other Kurdish-held borders areas east of Afrin.Vomena’s Producer Shahram Aghamir spoke with Dr. Cengiz Gunes who is an associate lecturer at the Open University in the UK about the Turkish invasion of Afrin, an enclave in North Western Syria