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US to withdraw troops from area of Turkish operation: Ankara
[ALMASDARNEWS] US President Donald Trump...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... has promised to withdraw US troops from areas of Kurdish-controlled northern Syria where a "In a telephone call with our president, the US president informed us that the US would be vacating the area. We will discuss the question of coordination after the withdrawal takes place. The agreement with the US on the creation of a safe zone is a very important first step," Cavusoglu said, speaking at a press briefing on Thursday. The foreign minister added that  ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...would not allow the US to delay the implementation of a safe zone under any circumstances, and has shown Washington that it is prepared to back its words by deeds. "Either we do it together, or we will be able to do it ourselves," he said. "Our decision is to create a safe zone so that there are no murderous Moslems there from the Syrian Kurdish self-defence forces and the Kurdistan Workers Party. But we will not allow this agreement to be turned into the [US] Roadmap for Manbij," Cavusoglu noted, referring to the Earlier, the Related: Mevlut Cavusoglu: 2019-08-01 Turkey will establish ‘security zone’ in northern Syria: Defense Council Mevlut Cavusoglu: 2019-07-27 Damascus Rejects Turkey-US Talks on Syria Buffer Zone Mevlut Cavusoglu: 2019-07-23 Turkey will launch operation in Syria if safe zone not established - minister Posted by: Fred 2019-08-09 |
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