The Turkish `Safe Zone´ and Erdogan´s Territorial Ambitions
(WorldNews Turkey)

Washington and Ankara have agreed on a `security mechanism zone` to defuse tensions and focus on a 75-mile buffer zone between Tall Abyad and Ras al-Ain, with the two armies establishing a joint operations center in Ankara. At the end of last week, U.S. and Turkish forces conducted their first joint ground patrol. But these joint efforts have not stopped Erdogan from criticizing the United States and accusing Washington of establishing a safe area for a `terrorist organization,` in reference to the Kurdish People`s Protection Units (YPG). Erdogan elaborated that `If we don`t start forming a safe zone with our soldiers in the east of the Euphrates before the end of September, we will have no...