For eight years of the war in Syria, the United States was not able to stop it; the greatest contribution to the resolution of the conflict was made by Russia and Turkey, Ismail Safi, a member of the Security and Foreign Policy Council of the Turkish Presidential Administration, said.
“The United States has not stopped the Syrian war in eight years. Turkey and Russia have made the greatest contribution to ending the conflict. Turkey has neutralized thousands of ISIS militants*. First we solved the problems in the West from the Euphrates, now in the East, together with Russia. The agreement signed in Sochi works for the benefit of all parties”, – Safi said, speaking in Ankara at the presentation of Yevgeny Primakov’s book, Confidential: The Middle East on the Stage and Behind the Scenes, published in Turkish.
Earlier, the Russian Federation and Turkey signed a memorandum of understanding of 10 points, in particular, on the entry of the Russian military police and the Syrian border service on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey outside the Turkish Source of Peace zone. They will facilitate the withdrawal of Kurdish troops and their weapons 30 kilometers from the Syrian-Turkish border, which should be completed within 150 hours. From this moment, a joint Russian-Turkish patrol will begin to a depth of 10 kilometers from the border to the west and east of the Turkish operation area, except for the city of Kamyshly.
* – Terrorist organization banned in Russia.