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Turkey may 'lock' borders with Syria and Iraq to deal with Kurdish militants

There is speculation about a secret deal between Ankara and Baghdad eyeing a contiguous, 30-kilometer-deep buffer from Syria to Iraq.

Syria refugees
Syrians who have been recently turned refugees by the Turkish military operation in northeastern Syria share a meal in a large tent upon arriving at the Bardarash camp, near the Kurdish city of Dohuk, in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, on Oct. 20, 2019. — SAFIN HAMED/AFP via Getty Images

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