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US to withdraw troops from area of Turkish operation: Ankara
2019-08-09
[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 Ottoman Turkish operation will be taking place, Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has announced.

"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 Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...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 Ottoman Turkish-US security agreement negotiated last year.

Earlier, the Ottoman Turkish Defence Ministry announced that Ankara and Washington had agreed to establish a coordination centre for joint operations, and to a security ’safe zone’ in northern Syria in which an area of Syrian territory between 30 and 40 km wide would be controlled by Turkey in coordination with the United States, with Syrian Kurdish forces forced to leave the area and surrender their heavy weapons.

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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

#1  If true, why are we playing footsie with this guy?
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2019-08-09 08:39  

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