Turkey ready to take over Syria's Manbij, Erdogan tells Trump

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Turkey ready to take over Syria's Manbij, Erdogan tells Trump
21 Jan 2019

Turkey is ready to take over security in Manbij, a town in northeast Syria held by Kurdish forces where four US personnel died in a bombing last week, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told his United States counterpart in a phone call.

A statement by the Turkish presidency said that Erdogan on Sunday told Donald Trump that the attack in Manbij was a provocation by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group to influence the expected US troop withdrawal from the war-torn country.

In a suprise move, Trump announced on December 19 that the United States would quickly pull its 2,000 soldiers out of northeastern Syria, declaring that ISIL had been defeated, a view not shared by many security experts and policy advisers.

Read more at: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/01/turkey-ready-syria-manbij-erdogan-tells-trump-190121011835123.html