Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Sochi
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Turkey and Russia have agreed to joint patrols in northern Syria. The patrol will be within a 10 km radius of the Turkish border. On Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Sochi. During the meeting, there was a lengthy discussion between the two individuals regarding the situation in Syria. Turkey and Russia agree on a joint press conference with Putin after the meeting, Erdogan said in the evening, Kurdish People’s Protection Units will be sent 30 miles from Turkey’s border to the towns of Tel Aviv and Sikkim.
Erdogan said that the fronts and bases of the aforementioned organization would be destroyed, that the terrorists in the Tall-relief and the encampment would have to leave the area with their weapons. The Turkish president also believed that the Ankara government would work with Moscow to secure the return of Syrian refugees to Turkey. “Today we have reached a historic agreement with Putin,” Erdogan said at the press conference. The agreement deals with counter-terrorism, the protection of Syrian territory and political unity and the return of refugees.
On this occasion, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the mechanism crucial for stopping any new Turkish military offensive against Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria. “In my view, this progress is decisive and will help resolve the most pressing situation,” he said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, on the other hand, confirmed on Tuesday that Russia and Turkey will patrol joint forces in the region after being disarmed by Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria. According to Sergey Lavrov, the agreement between the two countries will allow Kurdish fighters of Kurdish People’s Protection Units to be removed 30 km from the Syrian border. He added that the agreement would prevent bloodshed in the area. Sergey Lavrov explained that from the afternoon of October 23, Russian military police and Syrian government-controlled border guards will be deployed to Syria in the border with Turkey. The deployment will take place outside Turkey’s military operations area.
Under the agreement between Turkey and Russia, Kurdish fighters will be given another 150 hours from Wednesday afternoon. So that all the remaining areas on the 440 km long border between Turkey and Syria can be cleared. Turkey halted its attacks against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (organization) in northeast Syria on Thursday. The move was the result of a consensus on the ceasefire, which ended at 10pm local time on Tuesday night. The purpose of the ceasefire was to give way to Kurdish forces so that they could complete their evacuation from the border with Turkey. Earlier on Tuesday, Kurdish forces said they had completed the evacuation of territory on the Syrian border under a ceasefire agreement. The withdrawal was completed just hours before the expiration of the ceasefire agreement, which was settled through the US.
