Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that it is necessary.clean upKurdish forces in the north of Syria during a telephone conversation held on Sunday, December 11.
“It is important and a priority to clear the border from terrorists at least 30 km deep, according to the 2019 Sochi.said Recep Tayyip Erdogan, referring to the Kurdish fighters of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria, according to a statement from the Turkish presidency.
According to the Kremlin, the two leaders spoke “the problembased on the settlement of the conflict in Syriacompliance with the conditionsRussian-Turkish 2019The defense and foreign political bodies of the two countries will continue close contacts in this direction.– said in the press release of the President of the Russian Federation.
A series of air strikes
The Turkish head of state has threatened to launch ground military operations in northern Syria since November to push back the YPG fighters, whom Ankara accuses of being behind the November 13 attack in Istanbul that killed six people. Kurdish forces have denied involvement.
In 2019, an agreement between Ankara and Moscow ended another Turkish offensive that promised to create “safe space30 km to protect Turkey from attacks that may come from Syria. A separate agreement was signed between Ankara and Washington in 2019 on similar terms. Turkey accuses Russia, as well as the US, of not honoring those agreements and failing to drive the YPG out of the Turkish border.
On November 20, Turkey carried out a series of airstrikes against positions of Kurdish militants in northeastern Syria, which it describes as “terrorists“. Several hundred international coalition troops are stationed in the region, with the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) leading the fight against the jihadist Islamic State (IS), which was driven from its strongholds in Syria in 2019. Both Moscow and Washington have said they oppose a possible Turkish ground invasion of northern Syria.
Source: Le Figaro
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