Turkey Delays Military Operation on Syria Over U.S. Pullout
- Phone call with Trump led Turkey to wait ‘a little longer’
- Turkey has been preparing attack on U.S.’s Kurdish partners
Armoured vehicles and soldiers of Turkish Armed Forces patrol near Manbi.
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Turkey is postponing its planned military operation to strike U.S.-backed Kurdish militants in neighboring Syria as American troops withdraw, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
“Our phone call with President Trump, along with contacts between our diplomats and security officials and statements by the United States, have led us to wait a little longer,” Erdogan told an exporters’ group in Ankara on Friday. “Obviously, this is not an open-ended waiting period.”