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October 23, 2019 "It is not necessary" to resume the offensive against the Kurdish fighters in Syria, given that "their withdrawal" from the border areas has been "completed", as "the United States confirmed". According to the international media, the Turkish defense minister, Hulusi Akar, said in a statement that "at this stage, it is not necessary to carry out a new operation".

Ankara has announced that it has received from Washington the assurance of the withdrawal of the Ypg militias at the end of a 120-hour truce, which allowed Ankara to define a 'safe zone' extended east of the Euphrates river for 440 km along the border with Turkey and to draw with Moscow the future of the immediate north-east of the Middle Eastern country. The disengagement of the American military in the area has become the tempting opportunity for Russia, whose presence in an area from which it was completely absent now becomes decisive and at the center of the meeting, which took place yesterday in Sochi, on the Black Sea, between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin. The Damascus regime, for its part, will take control of the north of the country with the blessing of Moscow, which acts as guarantor for Ankara compared to the moves of President Bashar al Assad. A guarantor role that will manifest itself in Russia's renewed commitment to guarantee the continuation of the Adana agreement, with which Bashar's father, Hafez, in 1998 undertook to prevent attacks by Kurds from the PKK on Turkey from their territory (Ypg is the Syrian PKK wing and the contiguity between the two organizations is a fact for Ankara).

The agreement for the control of the territory
Turkey will continue to maintain control of a territory of 120 km of extension and 30 of depth, included between the cities of Tel Abyad (west) and Ras Al Ayn (east) taken from Ypg with the offensive "Source of peace" of the past weeks. Starting today, 12 Russian and Syrian military personnel will monitor the actual abandonment of the safe zone by the Ypg militiamen, within 150 hours outside the aforementioned area, destined to remain under the control of Ankara. Moscow has pledged to guarantee the total abandonment of the Ypg militiamen of the city of Tal Rifat, but above all of Manbij. The latter is located outside the safe zone, west of the Euphrates and has always been a center that Turkey has insisted on with the US in recent years for it to be abandoned by Ypg.

Russia-Turkey joint patrols are instead planned for a depth of 10 km, east and west of the territory between Tel Abyad and Ras Al Ayn under the control of the Ankara army, along the entire Turkish border, with the exclusion of the city of Qamishli. A joint action for which a permanent coordination mechanism will be established.