Erdogan demands Putin clear Kurdish militias from Syria border region

Tayyip Erdogan in Sanliurfa, Turkiye on December 3, 2022 [Aytaç Ünal/Anadolu Agency]

Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has demanded that his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, clear Kurdish militias from the Syrian border region, three years after Moscow guaranteed Ankara it would do so. In a phone call yesterday, Erdogan told Putin that it is "important to clear the [Kurdish fighters] from the border to a depth of at least 30 kilometres" and also "stated this was a priority", according to the Turkish presidential office. The clearing of Kurdish militias from the border region of northern Syria was one of the major conditions of the deal signed between Turkiye and Russia in 2019, in return for Turkish military's ceasing of its ground operation that year. Under that deal, a buffer zone – or […] Source

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