{"id":801,"date":"2017-09-22T08:46:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T08:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/erdogan-turkey-to-deploy-troops-inside-idlib-as-part-of-astana-deal\/"},"modified":"2017-09-22T08:46:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T08:46:42","slug":"erdogan-turkey-to-deploy-troops-inside-idlib-as-part-of-astana-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/erdogan-turkey-to-deploy-troops-inside-idlib-as-part-of-astana-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan: Turkey to deploy troops inside Idlib as part of Astana deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madaresharghi..com\">madaresharghi<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"lide\">Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claims his country will deploy troops to Syria\u2019s Idlib region as part of the Astana agreement with Iran and Russia on \u2018de-escalation zones\u2019.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"86\">\n<p>\n\tErdogan said in a Thursday interview with Reuters, \u201cUnder the agreement, Russians are maintaining security outside Idlib and Turkey will maintain the security inside Idlib region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTurkey, Russia and Iran act as guarantor states in the Syria peace process which has been underway between the Syrian government and the armed opposition in the Kazakh capital, Astana, since January.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn the latest round of the Astana talks last week, the three sides agreed on the details of a fourth de-escalation zone in Syria\u2019s Idlib Province.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn a joint statement, the trio said they had agreed \u2018to allocate\u2019 their forces to patrol the zone covering Idlib and parts of the neighboring provinces of Latakia, Hama and Aleppo regions.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tErdogan said the \u2018de-escalation\u2019 zones would be further discussed in talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin during his trip to Ankara next week.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe de-escalation zones are aimed at separating extremist groups, including Daesh and Jabhat al-Nusra from other militants.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe northwestern province of Idlib borders Turkey and is largely under the control of al-Nusra Front Takfiri militants.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Secession referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMeanwhile, Erdogan said that Turkey was considering counter-measures, including imposing sanctions, against the Kurdish region of northern Iraq over a planned September 25 referendum on the region\u2019s secession from the mainland.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cWithout any further delay we are going to discuss what kind of sanctions should be imposed and when the sanctions will be imposed,\u201d Erdogan said without elaborating on the nature of the embargoes.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTurkish troops are also carrying out military exercises near the border with Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tErdogan said on Saturday the resolution on troop deployment abroad will be submitted to parliament for a vote.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe planned vote has drawn sharp criticisms from the central Baghdad government as well as the international community, particularly Iraq\u2019s neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTurkey has been especially wary of a potential secession of the Kurdistan region from Iraq as it has been over the past decades grappling with pro-independence Kurdish militancy on its soil.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>madaresharghi Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claims his country will deploy troops to Syria\u2019s Idlib region as part of the Astana agreement with Iran and Russia on \u2018de-escalation zones\u2019. Erdogan said in a Thursday interview with Reuters, \u201cUnder the agreement, Russians are maintaining security outside Idlib and Turkey will maintain the security inside Idlib region.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[639],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Erdogan: Turkey to deploy troops inside Idlib as part of Astana deal - madaresharghi | An Analytical Look at Middle Eastern Developments<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/erdogan-turkey-to-deploy-troops-inside-idlib-as-part-of-astana-deal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Erdogan: Turkey to deploy troops inside Idlib as part of Astana deal - madaresharghi | An Analytical Look at Middle Eastern Developments\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"madaresharghi Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claims his country will deploy troops to Syria\u2019s Idlib region as part of the Astana agreement with Iran and Russia on \u2018de-escalation zones\u2019. 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