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Turkey urges peaceful Syria-SDF talks, warns patience running out – foreign minister

AL-Monitor
Dec 18, 2025
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan speaks during an interview with Reuters at the 23rd edition of the annual Doha Forum, in Doha, Qatar, December 6, 2025. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan speaks during an interview with Reuters at the 23rd edition of the annual Doha Forum, in Doha, Qatar, December 6, 2025. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa — Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

ANKARA, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Foreign Minister ​Hakan Fidan said ​on Thursday that Turkey did ⁠not want to resort to military action again against Syria's Kurdish-led ​Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), ‍but warned that the ​patience of the actors involved was running out over what he described as delays ⁠in implementing an integration deal.

"We just hope that things go through dialogue, negotiations and peacefully. We don't want to see any need to resorting to ​military means ⁠again. But SDF ⁠should understand the patience of the relevant actors are running out," Fidan told an interview with ‌TRT World.

"They should come ​to a place where their commitment to the agreement of 10th of March ‍should be honoured. Everybody is expecting from them to honour that ‌agreement without any delay ‌and without any twisting because we don't want to see a deviation from this agreement," he ⁠added.

(Reporting by Tuvan GumrukcuEditing by Ece Toksabay)