“We are starting a long-awaited withdrawal of troops from Syria, simultaneously striking a blow at the small remaining territorial caliphate of the“ Islamic state ”*, and from many sides. We attack again from the existing nearby bases, if it is converted. We will exhaust Turkey economically if they hit the Kurds, ”Trump wrote in his Twitter microblog.
In late October 2018, it was reported that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced a large-scale operation against the forces of the Syrian Kurds east of the Euphrates.
Erdogan later said that he decided to postpone the start of the operation to expel terrorists from areas of Syria east of the Euphrates River after a conversation with Trump.
* “Islamic State” (IG) - the organization is recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated December 29, 2014.