Turkey’s foreign minister on Thursday said a proposed safe zone in northern Syria is important for both the country’s stability and displaced Syrians’ return home, the state-run Anadolu agency reported.
The safe zone issue was first brought to the global stage when Erdoğan visited the US nearly six years ago, in May 2013.
It should emerge at upcoming talks whether Turkish and US views are overlapping or not concerning the idea of a Syrian safe zone, something first brought up by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the beginning of the Syria crisis, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu told a joint press conference with his Macedonian counterpart, Nikola Dimitrov.
“A safe zone in northern Syria is important for stability, the return home of Syrians including our Kurdish brothers and the fight against terrorism,” he added.
“The first talks about that were held between our Chief of General Staff Yaşar Güler and his US counterpart, Joseph Dunford in Brussels,” Çavuşoğlu said.
Oglu pointed to the attack that took place yesterday in the Syrian city of Manbeg, strongly condemned by the Turkish Foreign Ministry.
"We oppose all forms of terrorism as a country that has suffered so much and are determined to fight terrorist organizations," he said.
Source: Turkish Minute + Baladi News