Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said talks with the United States were still in place to establish a safe zone from the Iraqi border to the east of the Euphrates, but pointed out that there were differences between the two sides.

Erdogan accused Washington of seeking to establish a safe area in favor of a "terrorist organization," referring to the Kurdish People's Protection Units, which is classified as a terrorist Turkey, stressing his country's rejection of this approach.

“Every step we take, we see a difference between what we want and what the United States wants. In the same block. "

He stressed that the safe area could not be achieved by flying three to five helicopters or conducting five to ten patrols or the deployment of several hundred soldiers in the region in a form.

Erdogan said the whole region should be effectively made safe in its cities and countryside so that a million people can live there.

"If we don't start forming a safe area with our soldiers in the east of the Euphrates before the end of September, we will have no choice but to implement our own plans."

Earlier today, the Turkish and US armies conducted their first joint ground patrols in northern Syria, as part of the activities of the first phase of the establishment of the safe zone.

On August 7, Ankara and Washington reached an agreement to establish a joint operations center in Turkey to coordinate and manage the creation of the safe zone in northern Syria.

He stressed that Turkey had succeeded in part in aborting the "malicious conspiracy" being waged against it in order to encircle its borders with Syria and Iraq.

He pointed out that the Turkish army and gendarmerie managed to establish security on part of the country's borders with Syria and largely its border with Iraq.

He pointed out that Turkey is making great efforts to prevent the massacres of the Syrian regime against the civilian population in Idlib, through cooperation with Russia and Iran.

He pointed out that the Turkish city of Istanbul will host this September, a tripartite summit between Turkey, Russia and Iran, on the Syrian issue.