{"id":44633,"date":"2019-10-02T10:57:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T02:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=44633"},"modified":"2019-10-02T11:00:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T03:00:30","slug":"turkey-cannot-afford-to-delay-safe-zone-establishment-in-syria-erdogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=44633","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Cannot Afford To Delay Safe Zone Establishment In Syria: Erdogan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ANKARA, Oct 2 (NNN-ANADOLU) &#8211; Turkey has no time to waste to set up a safe zone across the Turkey-Syria border, Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We told those who kept delaying Turkey&#8217;s proposals, to eliminate the terrorist organisation and make Syrian territory safe for refugees, that this game is up,&#8221; Erdogan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We tried every method to resolve the problem next to our border, in cooperation with our allies. We were more than patient and always expressed our determination,&#8221; Erdogan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, we have not been able to achieve our goals in this way, particularly in the east of the Euphrates River. Turkey does not have a single day to waste in this matter,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He vowed to take unilateral military steps to set up a safe zone in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Aug 7, Turkish and U.S. military officials agreed to set up a safe zone in northern Syria and create a peace corridor, to facilitate the movement of displaced Syrians who want to return home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deal also envisages the withdrawal of the Syrian Kurdish People&#8217;s Protection Units (YPG) fighters, to the southern part of the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the retreat of the YPG has not started yet, frustrating Ankara on the safe zone talks with the U.S., which sees the Kurdish fighters as a partner in fighting terrorists in Syria.&#8211; NNN-ANADOLU  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA, Oct 2 (NNN-ANADOLU) &#8211; Turkey has no time to waste to set up a safe zone across the Turkey-Syria border, Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said. &#8220;We told those who kept delaying Turkey&#8217;s proposals, to eliminate the terrorist organisation and make Syrian territory safe for refugees, that this game is up,&#8221; Erdogan said. &#8220;We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":44638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,209,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44633"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}