US-Turkey deal on Syria is null and void: Analyst
An American political analyst believes that the agreement reached between the US and Turkey over Ankara’s incursion into Syria is “null and void.”
US Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday that Turkey had agreed to end the military offensive in northern Syria after Kurdish fighters withdraw from a safe zone.
Ankara’s incursion "will be halted entirely on completion" of the withdrawal, Pence told reporters following more than five hours of negotiations between a US delegation and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Thursday.
He said that Turkey will suspend its military operation for 120 hours to allow Kurdish YPG militants to pull out from the designated safe zone along the Turkish and Syrian border.
“Today the United States and Turkey have agreed to a ceasefire in Syria, in order to allow from YPG forces to withdraw from the safe zone for 120 hours,” Pence said.
Turkey's military will primarily enforce a "safe zone" in northern Syria, according to a joint US-Turkish statement.
“The agreement reached has nothing to do with US war on Syria, or Israeli war on Syria,” Stephen Lendman told Press TV on Friday.
“It has nothing to do with restoring peace and stability to the country, with protecting Syrian sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
“What the agreement is really all about is for the US and Turkey to try carving up Syrian territory illegally,” he opined.
“So the agreement reached in Ankara yesterday is null and void and illegitimate,” he added.
Turkey last week began pounding the positions of Kurdish fighters with jets and artillery and sent in troops to purge them from the area east of Euphrates.
The offensive came three days after US President Donald Trump announced he would pull US troops from the region, effectively exposing its allied Kurdish militants to their archenemy, Turkey.
Trump's move to withdraw troops from Syria was widely condemned by both Republican and Democratic Party lawmakers in Congress.
On Thursday, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said his government will respond through all legitimate means available to the Turkish offensive.
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