Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said the US was conducting joint patrols with Kurdish forces in the security zone in Northern Syria, which is contrary to Turkish-American agreements.
“Today, the second joint patrol began as part of our agreement with Russia. Unfortunately, the US is separately conducting patrols with the terrorist group YPG (Syrian Kurdish Self-Defense Forces). But they had to leave! How can the US explain this? This is not in our agreement”, – Erdogan told reporters.
The United States and Turkey on October 17 said they agreed to suspend Turkey’s military operation for 120 hours and withdraw Kurdish forces from the 30-kilometer buffer zone on the Turkish-Syrian border, which Ankara intended to control on its own. The ceasefire ended at 22.00 Moscow time on Tuesday, October 22. Erdogan later said that the United States had not fully fulfilled its obligations to Turkey under the Syrian agreements, Ankara was not ready to compromise.