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Pence announces Syria ceasefire deal with Turkey

ANKARA, Turkey — U.S. President Donald Trump placed a dangerous bet this week: He sent his vice pres..

ANKARA, Turkey — U.S. President Donald Trump placed a dangerous bet this week: He sent his vice president and secretary of State — two of the most public-facing figures in American government — here to the Turkish capital to try to cinch a ceasefire in a war that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan started, and said he has shown no interest in ending.

Many administration officials were concerned Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo would leave this city empty-handed.

But, this time, at least in the immediate, Trump got what he wanted: a five-day pause in violence in Syria.. And, most notably, the United States agreed to back off on new and withdraw previously instituted sanctions on Turkey.

“The Turkish side will pause Operation Peace Spring in order to allow for the withdrawal of YPG [Kurdish] forces from the safe zone for 120 hours,” Pence said at the U.S. ambassadors residence in Ankara, referring to the name the Turkish government has used to describe its incursion. “All military operations under Operation Peace Spring will be paused and Operation Peace Spring will be halted entirely on completion of the withdrawal. Our administration has already been in contact with Syrian defense forces and weve already begun to facilitate their safe withdrawal from the nearly 20-mile-wide safe zone area south of the Turkish border in Syria.”

The agreement came after more than four hours of talks between Erdoğan, Pence, Pompeo and other high-ranking U.S. officials. Ninety minutes of the negotiations were between Pence and Erdoğan alone.

From the outset, the mission had long odds: Pence and Pompeo landed in the Turkish capital on Thursday to the news that Erdoğan had tossed a letter from Trump in the trash. Walking out of the ambassadors residence here en route to the presidential palace to meet with Erdoğan, they wore stern looks and declined to take questions.

The ceasefire agreement represents a modest foreign policy victory for the United States as it tries to halt an invasion that has killed civilians, driven Americas former Kurdish allies into the arms of Syrian strongman Bashar Assad and caused the release of hundreds of ISIS prisoners.

And it represents a political respite for Trump, who had come under fierce criticism Read More – Source

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