Turks skeptical over accord with US for Syrian 'safe zone'
Many Turks fear that Turkey will be left in the lurch again with the new safe-zone agreement, as it was with the Manbij road map.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government is trying to present the agreement arrived at with the United States on Aug. 7 for a “safe zone” in northern Syria as a “very good beginning.”
Not everyone is convinced though, even if the pro-government press is trying to convince the public that Ankara scored a diplomat coup with this accord.
Turkey has been beefing up its military presence along the Syrian border recently, leading many to believe that an incursion into Syria was only days ahead. Government supporters maintain that it was Erdogan’s threats of military action against the US-backed Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in Syria that secured this latest agreement.
Whatever the case may be, this agreement had reduced the possibility of Turkish incursion into northern Syria for now.
