“Turkey will have no problem with such action”, Erdogan said. In the past, the United States and Turkey announced ambitious new joint policies concerning Syria that failed to materialize as disagreements emerged over what had been agreed to. They say “There is no more war”, this is why I am returning.
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Diplomatic sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that Ankara’s readiness to coordinate with the U.S.in an operation to end ISIS control in Raqqa goes back to Turkey’s desire to establish a buffer zone 40 kilometers deep and 98 kilometers long inside its borders with Syria.
Anush Hovhannisyan said although official Turkey says its main goal is to fight against the “Islamic State” terrorist group, it, in reality, fights against Kurds.
The deputy prime minister said four Turkish soldiers had been killed and 19 wounded in the two-week offensive.
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His comments came two weeks after Turkey launched an ambitious operation inside Syria, sending tanks and special forces to back up Syrian opposition fighters and cleanse its frontier from IS jihadists and Kurdish militia.
Barack Obama tracks down Recep Tayyip Erdogan for a brief private conversation after they gave remarks to reporters following their bilateral meeting alongside the G20 Summit in Hangzhou, China September 4, 2016.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday that Moscow has “grave concern about the advance of the Turkish troops and armed groups of the Syrian opposition it supports further into Syrian territory”.
Earlier, Nuh Kocaaslan, the mayor of Karkamış, the Turkish town across the border from Jarablus, said 20,000 people had returned to the Syrian city since it was cleared of terrorists.
Last month Turkey launched an operation inside Syria, targeting both the IS and Kurdish rebels. Turkey, at least until recently, was more intent on ousting Assad.
“Let our soldiers come together”.
Ankara wants global support to take control of a rectangle of territory stretching about 40 km into Syria, creating a buffer between two Kurdish-held cantons to the east and west and against Islamic State to the south.
“We worked very comfortably in al-Rai”.
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Rhodes also said that the operations which included American support for the Syrian Democratic Forces contributed to the liberation of Manbij, which was Daesh’s passage to Turkey.
