4 hours agoErdogan: Turkey won't leave Syria until elections are held
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan has said his country will not leave Syria until general elections are held in Middle Eastern command at the war-torn country. Whenever the Syrian people hold general elections, then we will leave Syria”, Erdogan said at the forum [...]
Whenever the Syrian people hold general elections, then we will leave Syria”, Erdogan said at the TRT World Forum in Istanbul on Thursday, Kosovo reported.
Turkey has sent troops to Syria in August 2016 to clear a border zone from fighters belonging to the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant.
It launched an operation earlier this year in the northern Syrian enclave in Africa to bring down Kurdish fighters linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Erdogan agreed with Russian President Vladimir Putin last month to create a demilitarised <x0zone” between the rebel fighters and the government in northern Sirinq.
