{"id":6181,"date":"2019-10-23T10:52:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T10:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=6181"},"modified":"2019-10-23T20:39:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T20:39:21","slug":"putin-and-erdogan-agreed-a-historic-deal-on-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/putin-and-erdogan-agreed-a-historic-deal-on-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin and Erdogan agreed a ‘historic’ deal on Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia and Turkey reach deal to push Kurdish forces out of zone in northern Syria<\/strong><\/p>\n

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met in the southern Russian resort city of Sochi with a shared agenda of shaping the endgame in Syria’s eight-year civil war.<\/p>\n

Russia and Turkey have reached a deal to establish a safe zone long sought by Ankara in northern Syria, which will see Kurdish militants operating in the region removed to beyond 30 kilometers from the Turkish border.<\/p>\n

Turkey and Russia both hailed the agreement as “historic.”\u00a0Critics like Sen. Bob Menendez, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that the US has now “been\u00a0sidelined” as a decision-maker in the conflict.<\/p>\n

What did Putin and Erdogan agree to?<\/span><\/h3>\n

Below is the memorandum of understanding reached by the two countries:<\/p>\n

“President of the Republic of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin agreed on the following points:<\/p>\n

1. The two sides reiterate their commitment to the preservation of the political unity and territorial integrity of Syria and the protection of national security of Turkey.<\/p>\n

2. They emphasise their determination to combat terrorism in all forms and manifestations and to disrupt separatist agendas in the Syrian territory.<\/p>\n

3. In this framework, the established status quo in the current Operation Peace Spring area covering Tel Abyad and [Ras al-Ain] with a depth of 32km (20 miles) will be preserved.<\/p>\n

4. Both sides reaffirm the importance of the Adana Agreement. The Russian Federation will facilitate the implementation of the Adana Agreement in the current circumstances.<\/p>\n

5. Starting 12.00 noon of October 23, 2019, Russian military police and Syrian border guards will enter the Syrian side of the Turkish-Syrian border, outside the area of Operation Peace Spring, to facilitate the removal of YPG elements and their weapons to the depth of 30km (19 miles) from the Turkish-Syrian border, which should be finalized in 150 hours. At that moment, joint Russian-Turkish patrols will start in the west and the east of the area of Operation Peace Spring with a depth of 10km (six miles), except Qamishli city.<\/p>\n

6. All YPG elements and their weapons will be removed from Manbij and Tal Rifat.<\/p>\n

7. Both sides will take necessary measures to prevent infiltrations of terrorist elements.<\/p>\n

8. Joint efforts will be launched to facilitate the return of refugees in a safe and voluntary manner.<\/p>\n

9. A joint monitoring and verification mechanism will be established to oversee and coordinate the implementation of this memorandum.<\/p>\n

10. The two sides will continue to work to find a lasting political solution to the Syrian conflict within Astana Mechanism and will support the activity of the Constitutional Committee.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Russia and Turkey reach deal to push Kurdish forces out of zone in northern Syria Russian President […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,44,1],"tags":[357,356,20,13,299,82,7],"class_list":["post-6181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-europe","tag-middle-east","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-syria-war","tag-turkey","tag-u-s"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Turkish-president-Recep-Tayyip-Erdogan-and-Vladimir-Putin-his-Russian-counterpart.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1BH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6185,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6181\/revisions\/6185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}