ISTANBUL - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States and Russia on Thursday of failing to fulfill their part of a deal for Kurdish militia to leave a Syrian region bordering Turkey, and said he would raise this with President Donald Trump next week.
"While we hold these talks, those who promised us that the YPG... would withdraw from here within 120 hours have not achieved this," Erdogan said ahead of a visit to Hungary, referring to a deadline set in last month's agreement. But Erdogan said this deal had also not been fulfilled, with YPG fighters still in the border strip, adding that he would hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin soon after his meeting with Trump.
A senior US State Department official said late on Wednesday there has been fighting in the area south-east of the Syrian border town of Ras al-Ain. It"is somewhat in dispute"whether the area is covered by the US or Russian deals, the official said. Ankara began its offensive after Trump announced an abrupt withdrawal of 1,000 US troops from northern Syria in early October. The US president has since said that some troops will continue to operate there.
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