Turkish Defense Minister Yaşar Güler sent a final amended letter accompanied by an eight-day deadline, stating Syria and Turkey are ready to carry out an operation to end the presence of the SDF terrorist militia in Syria, according to SyrNetworkNews on X over the past 59 minutes from 4:16 p.m. to 5:16 p.m. UTC. The letter is scheduled to be signed by the US Department of Defense, per the SyrNetworkNews post at https://x.com/SyrNetworkNews/status/2002385609881506201. The warning included the possibility of sending about 80,000 fighters from elite forces into the Syrian and Turkish armies, with Güler stressing that these forces are ready to go into battle, as stated in the source citing its own information. This development follows Güler's earlier statement on December 20, 2025, that the deadline for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to integrate individually into the Syrian army ends at year-end, with Turkey prepared for all scenarios thereafter, according to X posts by temmuzhaber and BarracudaVol1 reported over the past 90 minutes prior to this window.
