Le Monde, the daily, noted that the U.S. pullout was announced a few days after a telephone call between the U.S. President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart Erdogan on Friday, Dec. 14.<\/p>\n
“It seems that the U.S. president gave in to the pressures of Turkey\u2019s number one [Erdogan],” it added.<\/p>\n
The daily also said that Turkey can launch operations against the YPG\/PKK terror group in Syrian regions.<\/p>\n
Last week, Erdogan said a counter-terrorism operation could begin “at any moment” east of the Euphrates River, stressing that Turkey would never allow a \u201cterror corridor\u201d to be established along its border.<\/p>\n
Notably, in late November, the U.S. army fortified areas of northern Syria along the roughly 100-kilometer border with Turkey’s southern Sanliurfa province.<\/p>\n
In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK — listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU — has been responsible for the deaths of some 40,000 people, including women and children. The YPG is its Syrian branch.<\/p>\n
Syria has only just begun to emerge from a devastating conflict that began in 2011 when the Assad regime cracked down on demonstrators with unexpected severity.<\/p>\n
US troops in Syria set to return home<\/p>\n
“We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency,” the U.S. President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“We have started returning United States troops home as we transition to the next steps of this campaign,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Reports have suggested all State Department personnel would depart Syria within the next 24 hours while U.S. forces will leave within 60 to 100 days.<\/p>\n
The withdrawal comes on the eve of a possible Turkish military operation in northeastern Syria against the YPG\/PKK terrorist group. Since 2016, Ankara has carried out two similar military operations in northern Syria.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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