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BREAKING — Erdogan and Pence reach a deal to suspend Turkish incursion in Northern Syria in 120 hours, Turkish sources to @MiddleEastEye

• Turkey will suspend its operations to allow YPG to withdraw from the designated safe zone
BREAKING — US, Turkey agree Turkish side will be mainly responsible for safe zone as 2 countries will increase cooperation to implement the deal, Turkish sources to @MiddleEastEye

• YPG’s heavy weapons to be re-collected, fortifcations to be disabled

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BREAKING — Once Turkey halts its operation in Syria, Trump administration will lift executive sanctions and there won’t be new ones.

• MEE understands that Trump administration will consult with US Congress to prevent new sanctions

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BREAKING — “We got exactly what we wanted out of the meeting.” Senior Turkish official tells @MiddleEastEye

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BREAKING — US Vice President Mike Pence CONFIRMS @MiddleEastEye’s reporting:

“Today the United States and Turkey have agreed to a ceasefire in Syria," he says

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MORE:

• Pence confirms that once Syrian Kurdish YPG/SDF withdraws from the safe zone, Turkey will declare a permanent ceasefire

• The safe zone will be 20 miles deep along the Turkish border, Pence says

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Ragıp Soylu
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First pic from Erdogan, Pence meeting.

NO ONE is happy
“We’re told the bilat between Pence and Erdogan began around 3:30PM and that only translators are in the room. James Jeffrey is the translator for Pence,” reports print pooler.

Erdogan often meets US leaders without actual translators to create a familiar and close atmosphere
More pics from Pence, Erdogan meeting.

STILL NOT HAPPY
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Ragıp Soylu
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BREAKING — Erdogan just “dumped Trump’s letter to the trash” Turkish officials say

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Turkey responded Trump’s letter in kind and with a stronger language, Turkish official tells MEE

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Erdogan responsed to Trump’s letter by launching the Syria operation in the same day he received the letter, Turkish officials say

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You think Trump shocked Pentagon, State Department and US Congress by pulling out from parts of Northern Syria?

TURKS WERE ALSO SURPRISED by the White House readout, because Trump didn’t tell Erdogan in the call that he was going to withdraw

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Ankara would wait about a week for US forces to fully pull out from the area before launching its offensive in Syria, senior Turkish official told MEE.

“But if we see a risk, there would be an intervention [before then],” the official said

middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive…
More or less this article by Newsweek confirms our story on Trump/Erdogan call

A US official adds,

“To be honest with you, it would be better for the US to support a Kurdish nation across Turkey/Syria/Iraq. It would be another Israel in the region."

newsweek.com/exclusive-offi…
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Heshmat Alavi
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#BREAKING
-Pence & Erdogan reach a deal to suspend Turkish incursion into northern Syria in 120 hours: reports
-Turkey to suspend operations to allow YPG to withdraw from designated safe zone
#UPDATE
US Vice President Mike Pence:
-US & Turkey agree on ceasefire in Syria
-Turkey & US agree to protect prisons in northern Syria & confront ISIS
-We agreed with Turkey to protect minorities in northern Syria
-Agreement with Turkey saved millions of lives
#UPDATE
Pence:
-Washington will not impose additional sanctions on Turkey
-We will work with Kurdish units to secure their withdrawal 20 miles from the Syrian-Turkish border

Correction:
Initial ceasefire is for 120 hours in preparation for a permanent ceasefire.
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#UnRedactedCopy Lori
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❤️🇺🇸 Thank you Mr President ~ Economic action should be the way we deal with this. Turkey 🇹🇷 doesn't value life as much as they value their economy.
I remember Mr President. Many are ignorant about who the Kurds are. An Iranian ethnic group native to a region of Western Asia known as Kurdistan, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria
PKK is definitely the reason that Turkey has a legitimate security concern and YPG (2004 armed wing of the Kurdish leftist Democratic Union Party) formed because of the civil war. We shouldn't continue funding war.

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Christina Ruffini
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BREAKING: Sec of Defense @EsperDoD tells @margbrennan the President has ordered “a deliberate withdrawal” from Northern Syria. “As safely and quickly as possible.” #Turkey #Syria
Says it became clear Turkey is poaching further south. SDF is working on a deal with Russia and Syria to push back. US troops were going to be caught in the middle. It would be “irresponsible for me to keep them in that position.” #Turkey #Syria
.@margbrennan :What price will they pay for it? @EsperDoD “We’ll see over time.”
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Filomena Rocha
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6. Further Proof. The Truth may be long, but it always prevails.
Who fights against #Syria, against the Govt of #Syria & #Syrian Army?
As you can see, they are #Not Syrians!
Any question?
#ForeignTerrorists #RegimeChange #Imperialism #WarCriminal #Lies #Conspiracy
#Hypocrisy
1. Further Proof. The Truth may be long, but it always prevails.
Who fights against #Syria, against the Govt of #Syria & #Syrian Army?
As you can see, they are #Not Syrians!
Any question?
2. Further Proof. The Truth may be long, but it always prevails.
Who fights against #Syria, against the Govt of #Syria & #Syrian Army?
As you can see, they are #Not Syrians!
Any question?
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Sotiri Dimpinoudis
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#Breaking: Just in - Turkish President #Erdogan condemns #France and the #US, who are saying that France would leave 200 troops and the US would leave 400 troops behind in #Syria after the defeat of #ISIS.
#Update: Just in - Turkish President Erdogan says the U.S. has to cut it ties with the PKK/YPG, otherwise our relations won't get well.
#Breaking: Just in - Turkish President Erdogan says if the #US cannot bring back it's weapons in #Syria, it should give them to #Turkey instead of the US Kurdish led coalition SDF and YPG fighters.
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Paula Chertok🗽
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#BREAKING Congressional leaders, Trump reach tentative DEAL to temporarily reopen government WITHOUT WALL funds, according to Hill officials. Via @washingtonpost

Cue the propagandists… #dejavu #Shutdown
Trump ends shutdown—for 3 weeks. After stumbling over TelePrompTer about people suffering: Walls work—99.9%. Not medieval but smart walls. I never said wall-to-wall walls…(Rambling carnage part now)…Crisis, gangs, women w tape on mouths in vans, violence, people laugh at us…
“He can’t quit the wall”—@acosta on bonkers Trump speech caving, defeated after throwing lives & country into turmoil for 35 days. And WH staffers applauded!? He couldn’t help but adlib the carnage propaganda themes. Then he closed by threatening yet another shutdown on Feb 15🤯
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