{"id":32090,"date":"2017-02-13T16:50:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T15:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/32090-erdogan-calls-for-safe-zone-in-northern-syria.html"},"modified":"2017-02-13T16:50:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T15:50:42","slug":"erdogan-calls-for-safe-zone-in-northern-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/32090-erdogan-calls-for-safe-zone-in-northern-syria.html","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan calls for safe zone in northern Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday that Ankara wanted to establish a \"safe zone\" in northern Syria free of \"terrorists\", as Turkish-backed rebels pushed ahead in the town of Al-Bab.<\/p>\n

He added the area would also require a \"no-fly\" zone.<\/p>\n

\"Our objective here is (to establish) an area of at least 4,000, 5,000 square kilometres free from terrorism, to create a safe zone,\" Erdogan said in a televised speech in Bahrain.<\/p>\n

Turkey has repeatedly called for such a zone, which it believes could help to alleviate the burden of accommodating Syrian refugees.<\/p>\n

Late last month, US media reported the Pentagon would be given 90 days to draw up a plan to set up \"safe zones\" which Turkey said it would watch closely.<\/p>\n

Ankara launched an ambitious campaign supporting opposition fighters inside Syria last August to clear its southern border of IS elements and to halt the advance of Syrian Kurdish militia.<\/p>\n

After a lightning advance retaking northern towns including Jarabulus, it is facing the biggest challenge of the campaign so far in Al-Bab.<\/p>\n

Turkish troops and their Syrian rebel allies entered the centre of Al-Bab at the weekend with Erdogan saying its capture was now a \"matter of time\" on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Opposition fighters captured 40 percent of the town's centre, the official news agency Anadolu reported on Monday, quoting its correspondents on the ground.<\/p>\n

Erdogan said the targets after Al-Bab would be Manbij -- a former bastion of IS that is now under the control of US-backed, Kurdish-led militia -- and Raqa if \"we take a joint step with (US-led) coalition forces\".<\/p>\n

Turkey has insisted that any operation to retake Raqa from extremists should be done without the Kurdish Peoples' Protection Units (YPG) militia.<\/p>\n

Ankara sees the YPG as a sister \"terror\" group of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) waging an insurgency inside Turkey since 1984.<\/p>\n

But Washington views the Kurdish militia as its most effective force on the ground in Syria against IS.<\/p>\n

Later on Monday, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said Ankara would view the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed wing YPG replacing IS in Raqa as a \"top security threat\" to Turkey.<\/p>\n

Turkey says it is home to over 2.7 million Syrian refugees who fled the country ravaged by the conflict which began with anti-government protests.<\/p>\n

More than 310,000 people have been killed during the six-year civil war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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