国际英语资讯:Spotlight: Turkeys operation against Kurds in Syrias Afrin strains ties with U.S._时事

国际英语资讯:Spotlight: Turkeys operation against Kurds in Syrias Afrin strains ties with U.S.

Any miscalculation and escalation could lead to grave consequences, he warned.

To Solmazturk, who chairs the Incek debates at the Ankara-based 21st Century Turkey Institute, the U.S. reaction to Turkey's operation is no surprise.

The United States is reacting to Ankara's cooperation with Moscow in Syria, where it is struggling for influence with Russia, he said.

Both analysts expected that international pressure over Ankara to end the operation should increase as days pass.

Cavusoglu said his U.S. counterpart Rex Tillerson had proposed to Ankara to establish a security zone of 30-km-deep along Turkey's border with Syria.

It is not possible to discuss such issues before trust is restored between the two NATO allies, Cavusoglu told the local media Thursday.

However, Tillerson denied later the same day that he had proposed a safe zone to Cavusoglu, maintaining that they had simply discussed a number of possible options.

Back in 2016, the United States had promised that the YPG forces in Manbij would withdraw to the eastern part of the Euphrates River.

The Turkish government previously said that the United States should take back the weapons it had already delivered to the YPG for any cooperation to be possible.

Erdogan said last month that Washington had provided a total of 4,900 truck-load of weapons to the Kurdish militia.

It is widely argued that the Turkish troops entered Afrin, where there were Russian troops in the past, following a deal with Russia, although Ankara dismissed the claim.