northern syria would spark what he called a big war i mean does the p.g.a. does it have the capability to stand up to the turkish military. well there s obviously a lot of chest beating one all sides and the turkish armed forces is a is a lord s well equipped well a trained nato force so obviously toto the y.p. g. is really no match for the turkish on forces but let s keep in mind that turkey makes no distinction between the y.p. g. and the p.k. k. and it s the p.k. k. that has been battling turkey since 19 eighty-four that s a very long time so one will can imagine that if the turks do take that step and invade north northern syria why p.g. would follow the lesson of the p.k. k. to gauge and a guerrilla warfare and terrorism that would seek to leave the turkish armed forces
coordination center will be set up it says that this will be a peace card or these are all very vague kinds of things that no one could oppose i do think that it is an effort to paper over significant differences between the united states and turkey and gives turkey a way out of having not to invade like it had promised it would do to very good points you make there and we also know that the united states says that a 30 kilometer safety zone makes little sense so what kind of turkish involvement in northern syria would be acceptable to washington. well this is the crux of the problem and it s been. the source of ongoing negotiations for many months and i think that washington and ongar have 2 very different conceptions of what a safe zone means for the united states a safe zone means
2 main points of division but how far the zone should extend and who would command forces patrolling it were to get some analysis of what this development means but 1st this look at the difficult alliances which have emerged during 8 years of civil war in syria syria s many sided conflict has thrown up some quick bedfellows in the battle to oust the islamic state from the former kind of fit in syria u.s. led western forces found themselves heavily reliant on the syrian kurdish fighters of the y.p. g i thought and lyons was to become a thorn in the side of washington s nato ally turkey. ankara sees the kurdish y p g militia as a terrorist organization and says it could ultimately both an ongoing insurgency inside turkey. in 20162018 ankara
a safe zone for the inhabitants of the area and for why p. g. forces that are in the area that will value not to undertake any kind of operations against against turkey and turkish personnel for turkey a safe zone in northern syria means making the area safe for turkey which means opens the possibility of turkish military operations against the white b.g. and that s the crux of the problem and it s clear from this agreement that the united states and turkey still do not are still not on the same page despite protestations from turkish government officials who say the united states has embraced the turkish position. we remember a couple or few months ago president trump announced that the u.s. was pulling its forces out of northern syria i mean there was a huge headline at the time why are those forces still there. well we
as addressing sort of the hatred and the division and that s a that s a lot more difficult it s a lot of work no act with the washington post repression you coming in sharing your insights thank you so much. turkey says it has struck a deal with the united states to set up a joint operations center in northern syria turkey has been pushing the u.s. for months to establish what it calls a safe zone along its southern border turkey wants a u.s. backed kurdish militia to vacate a 30 kilometer zone along the border on korea says the militia d y p g well it considers him to be terrorist but with u.s. help they ve alstad so-called islamic state and taking control of almost all syrian territory east of the euphrates river the details of the claimed u.s. turkish agreements remain unclear neither side have said if they have overcome the