01:51Turkey: Ankara to launch own Syria plan unless it controls 'safe zone' - Erdogan
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey will carry out its own plan of action if Turkish troops do not run a "safe zone" in northeast Syria within a few weeks, during a speech at Istanbul's National Defence University on Saturday.
"Turkey has no time and patience and it wants a safe-zone to be built along the eastern Euphrates line, along Syria, as soon as possible," Erdogan said during the National Defence University's graduation ceremony.
"The United Nations General Assembly, which we will attend in three weeks in the United States, will be the last opportunity," Erdogan said. "If satisfactory steps won't be taken until that day regarding the safe zone, then there is nothing for us but to take care of our own business, to cut our own umbilical cord by ourselves."
01:51Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey will carry out its own plan of action if Turkish troops do not run a "safe zone" in northeast Syria within a few weeks, during a speech at Istanbul's National Defence University on Saturday.
"Turkey has no time and patience and it wants a safe-zone to be built along the eastern Euphrates line, along Syria, as soon as possible," Erdogan said during the National Defence University's graduation ceremony.
"The United Nations General Assembly, which we will attend in three weeks in the United States, will be the last opportunity," Erdogan said. "If satisfactory steps won't be taken until that day regarding the safe zone, then there is nothing for us but to take care of our own business, to cut our own umbilical cord by ourselves."