The Syrian government has called the deal among Turkey and the United States with respect to a “safe” zone in northern Syria a “blatant attack” on the nation’s power and sovereignty.
On Wednesday, the US and Turkey arrived at an arrangement to build up joint tasks centre to organize and deal with the setting up of a protected zone in northern Syria.
A joint statement by the US embassy and the Turkish Ministry of Defense in Ankara said the different sides hailed to set up the Turkey-based activities cente “as soon as possible” and the safe zone “would become a peace corridor”, without giving further subtleties.
“Syria expresses categorical rejection of the agreement announced by the US and Turkish occupations on establishing the so-called [safe zone] which constitutes a blatant aggression against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic and a flagrant violation of the principles of the international law and the UN Charter,” a Syrian source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told SANA press agency on Thursday.
“This agreement has very clearly exposed the US-Turkish partnership in the aggression against Syria which serves the interest of the Israeli occupation entity and the Turkish expansionist ambitions and it unequivocally exposed the misleading and evasiveness which govern the policies of the Turkish regime,” the statement continued.
The Turkey-US statement, however, didn’t specify when and how the safe zone would be implemented, yet appeared to avert a threatened Ankara operation into the Euphrates Rivers’ region in Syria.
“Syria calls on the international community and the UN to condemn the US-Turkish flagrant aggression which constitutes a dangerous escalation and poses a threat to peace and security in the region and the world and hinders all positive efforts for finding a solution to the crisis in Syria,” the government statement concluded.
Northeastern Syria is as of now under the control of the US-upheld Kurdish-drove Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), to a great extent involving the People’s Protection Units (YPG).
Turkey considers the YPG to be an augmentation of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which propelled a furnished crusade against the state before 35 years.
Turkey has, for a considerable length of time, been squeezing to set up a 30-40km profound zone inside Syria, looking for the removal of the YPG from the zone and the decimation of their passages and fortresses.
On Tuesday, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cautioned the nation was coming up short on tolerance with respect to a Turkey-US bargain.
“Turkey has the right to eliminate all threats against its national security,” he said during a televised speech. “God willing, we will carry the process started with [previous offensives into Syria] to the next stage very soon.”
Following that discourse, the US barrier secretary, Mark Esper, said that any one-sided activity by Turkey would be “unsuitable”.
Turkey has twice done one-sided offensives into northern Syria against ISIL and YPG, in 2016 and 2018 individually.