President Trump said earlier this week the U.S. would step aside for an expected Turkish attack on Syrian Kurdish fighters, then he threatened to destroy Turkey's economy if it went too far.
Turkey will not bow to threats over its Syria plans, the Turkish vice president said Tuesday in an apparent response to President Trump’s warning to Ankara the previous day about the scope of its planned military incursion into northeastern Syria.
In Ankara, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said Turkey was intent on combating Syrian Kurdish fighters across its border in Syria and on creating a zone that would allow Turkey to resettle Syrian refugees there. Mekdad’s comments were the first Syrian reaction since Trump’s announcement on Sunday and as northeastern Syria braces for an imminent Turkish attack on Syrian Kurdish militias. Trump’s statement has infuriated the Kurds, who stand to lose the autonomy they gained from Damascus during Syria’s civil war, now in its ninth year.
The Syrian Kurdish force has pledged to fight back, raising the potential for an eruption of new warfare in Syria. “We have more work to do to keep ISIS from coming back & make our accomplishments permanent. If America leaves, all will be erased,” he tweeted, using an acronym for Islamic State.
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