Turkey presses on with its incursions into Syria as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan remains quiet on the Trump’s demand for a ceasefire.
Turkey pressed on with its incursions into Syria on Tuesday despite the Trump administration’s demands for an immediate ceasefire and the U.S.'s imposition of biting economic sanctions on its NATO ally, along with a threat to punish individual Turkish officials.
A senior Trump administration official, who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity, said on Tuesday that Pence and others would use the threat of additional U.S. sanctions as leverage in the coming talks with Erdogan's government. "We failed in our mission to deter Turkey from coming in certainly ... but we never told the Kurds that we would use military force" in a potential clash with Turkey, this official said. The U.S. only withdrew troops from northeast Syria to avoid being caught in the middle of a firefight between those two parties, he said.
"It’s dangerous for our troops. It’s placing the fight against ISIS at risk. It’s placing at risk the safe imprisonment of almost 10,000 detainees" who are being held by the Kurds but now could escape amid the new battlefield chaos. “Turkey’s incursion into Northeastern Syria, which President Trump allowed to happen, has led to a worst-case scenario in the region that I have long feared,” said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a New Hampshire Democrat who sits on the Foreign Relations Committee.
Dozens of civilians have been killed in Turkey's operation so far, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a conflict-monitoring group. The United Nations says that at least 160,000 civilians have been displaced since the Turkish offensive began on Oct. 9.
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