In January, U.S. President Donald Trump proposed to establish a 30-km-deep safe zone on the YPG-held territory along the Turkish border, threatening at the same time to economically devastate Turkey in case it attacks the Kurdish force.
Since then, Ankara and Washington have been in talks about the safe zone which Ankara wants to put under its own control, while Washington does not appear to favor the idea.
There is no agreement on all issues yet, but progress has been achieved, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said early this month.
"It's highly unlikely the U.S. would allow the safe zone to be under Turkish control," Hasan Koni, an analyst on international relations with Istanbul Culture University, told Xinhua.
Koni referred to a U.S. media report about Syrian Christians' opposition to a Turkish-controlled safe zone.
Trump is not expected to take any steps that would risk losing the support of evangelical voters ahead of next year's presidential elections, as a big majority of the evangelical Christians voted for him in the 2016 elections.
What Turkey wants to avoid is the emergence of a YPG-controlled autonomous Kurdish area along its border, remarked Koni.
Turkey is concerned that an autonomous Kurdish area along its border may set a precedent for its own nearly 20 million Kurdish population.
The PKK has been fighting a bloody war for an autonomous if not an independent Kurdistan in Turkey's predominantly Kurdish southeast.
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