Çavuşoğlu: Operation will resume if they do not withdraw within 35 hours 

2019-10-21 11:58:51


	ANKARA - Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, stating that there is a 120 hour agreement between Turkey and USA, said, 'We have 35 more hours left. If they won't witdraw, we will resume the operation.'

	Çavuşoğlu, recalling that the USA Delegation came to Turkey after the phonecall bewteen Erdoğan and Trump, said: "“As a result of the negotiations, we reached an agreement of 13 articles. The US recognized our legitimate security concerns. The safe zone will be controlled by the Turkish army. A period of 120 hours was allowed to withdraw YPG elements. According to this agreement, all the elements there must be withdrawn within 120 hours. If all YPG / PYD elements are withdrawn from the area then we can stop the operation. The complete collection of heavy weapons is also included in this statement. As for the sanctions, we cannot live with sanctions during the negotiations. These will go away. Turkish armed forces and intelligence units control this agreement and harassment fires continue. Of course, we responded to the harassment fires. We see that YPG / PYD elements are leaving the regions we control. 35 more hours left, unless they withdraw, the operation will resume. Negotiations with Astana guarantors continue while fighting terrorists. Tomorrow we will go to Syria and meet Putin, which is very important. There we make every effort for stability and peace to create a political consensus. "