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ALEPPO, Syria — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan responded positively to US President Donald Trump's proposal to form a safe zone in the Syrian territory near the border with Turkey in the areas now controlled by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
“The safe zone issue, including one to be formed by us along Turkey’s borders — an issue that I have been raising since the Obama era — was repeated by [Trump] him as 20 miles [32 kilometers],” Erdogan said in a speech at the Turkish parliament Jan. 15 before the ruling Justice and Development Party bloc. This comes after his telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump on Jan. 14.
