Turkey, US officials resume talks on safe-zone in northern Syria
- Türkiye
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- Published Date: 11:41 | 06 August 2019
- Modified Date: 09:21 | 06 August 2019
A meeting between Turkish and U.S. military officials to discuss the establishment of a safe zone in northern Syria resumed Tuesday in Ankara, according to the Turkish National Defense Ministry.
The meeting started at 10:30 a.m. local time (0730GMT), the ministry stated in a post shared on its official page.
Ankara is eager to create a 20-mile (32-kilometer) safe zone in northern Syria after clearing the region from YPG/PKK terrorists.
YPG is the Syrian offshoot of bloody-minded PKK, which has been responsible for the deaths of nearly 40,000 people -- including women and children -- in Turkey for more than three decades.
Ankara and Washington have yet to hammer an agreement on the safe zone.
Turkey's Foreign Ministry underlined on Friday that they had "limited" patience and if efforts to find common ground with the U.S. failed, Ankara would have to create a safe zone in war-torn Syria on its own.