Turkey bids to resettle two million Syrian refugees in border ‘safe zone’

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants Syrian government forces to move out of areas near the border so up to two million refugees can be settled there&comma; his spokesman said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Government troops have moved in to several locations in north-eastern Syria this week&comma; invited by Kurdish-led fighters to protect them from Turkey’s incursion&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That has complicated Turkey’s plan to create a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;safe zone” along the border where it wants to clear out the Kurdish fighters it considers terrorists and resettle Syrian refugees now in Turkey&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Under an agreement made by the US and Turkey&comma; a ceasefire has been in place since Friday evening to last for five days&comma; during which Kurdish fighters are supposed to pull back from border areas&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;142357" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-142357" style&equals;"width&colon; 600px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-142357" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;10&sol;CEA0CC3E-55CD-4082-8B77-B95CB834ADB1&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"395" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-142357" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Fighting has continued in some areas despite the ceasefire<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The ceasefire has been shaken by fighting in one border town&comma; and there has so far been no sign of any withdrawals by the Kurdish-led forces&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Erdogan’s spokesman&comma; Ibrahim Kalin&comma; said Ankara does not want Kurdish fighters to be able to continue to operate in border areas under control of Russian-backed Syrian forces&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said Syrian forces should move out of border areas because the refugees &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;don’t want to go back to areas under regime control”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He added&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This is one of the topics that we will discuss with the Russians&comma; because&comma; again&comma; we are not going to force any refugees to go to anywhere they don’t want to go&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We want to create conditions that will be suitable for them to return where they will feel safe&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads2--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;142359" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-142359" style&equals;"width&colon; 600px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-142359" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;10&sol;0B3B5F28-0701-4F76-BBF1-FA8E428EE650&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"400" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-142359" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Clashes have continued&comma; but aid convoys have been allowed into key areas<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Turkey has taken in about 3&period;6 million Syrians fleeing the conflict in their homeland but wants most of them to return&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>US forces were previously deployed in parts of north-east Syria alongside Kurdish-led forces&comma; but President Donald Trump withdrew them abruptly&comma; opening the way for Turkey’s incursion 11 days ago&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Despite the ceasefire&comma; the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Turkish-backed fighters entered Syria on Saturday and advanced into Kurdish-held Shakariya&comma; a village east of Ras al-Ayn that saw clashes and a Turkish strike a day earlier&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Turkey and the Kurdish-led forces traded blame for the continued fighting&comma; with the Kurds saying the continued siege was a violation of the agreement and asking US vice-president Mike Pence to ensure the deal’s enforcement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;142360" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-142360" style&equals;"width&colon; 600px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-142360" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;10&sol;4F9845B0-C904-4AC3-9234-BC977D28B0A2&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"400" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-142360" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">The Kurds have called on US vice-president Mike Pence to enforce the deal<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads3--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But on Saturday evening&comma; a medical convoy including the Syrian and Kurdish Red Crescent was allowed to pass through the Turkish-backed fighters’ cordon to Kurdish-held areas in the town for the first time — a sign of easing tensions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The convoy delivered medical supplies and evacuated nearly 40 injured civilians and fighters&period; A Turkish Red Crescent convoy entered parts of the town held by Turkish-backed forces and delivered supplies there&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Turkey’s Defence Ministry said it is &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;completely abiding” by the accord and that it is in &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;instantaneous co-ordination” with Washington to ensure the continuity of calm&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The ministry accused Kurdish-led fighters of carrying out 14 &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;attacks and harassments” in the past 36 hours&comma; most in the town of Ras al-Ayn&comma; which was besieged by allied fighters before the ceasefire&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Turkey also said Saturday it has recaptured 41 suspected Islamic State members who had fled a detention camp amid the chaos caused by the fighting earlier this week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads4--><&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e3c360eddd1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; 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