{"id":26624,"date":"2018-12-23T10:22:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T10:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26624"},"modified":"2018-12-23T10:22:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T10:22:28","slug":"turkey-and-us-to-coordinate-syria-withdrawal-and-avoid-vacuum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26624","title":{"rendered":"Turkey and US to coordinate Syria withdrawal and avoid vacuum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"71.4576687117\">\n<p>The planned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\">US<\/a> troops pull-out will leave oil and agricultural-rich areas currently controlled by the Kurdish YPG vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>Syrian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/bashar-al-assad.html\">Bashar al-Assad<\/a> has repeatedly said that he wants to retake the enclave, but Ankara wants the areas handed over to representatives from Arab-majority towns that are currently under YPG control.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/turkey.html\">Turkey<\/a> has maintained that it has no territorial ambitions in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/syria.html\">Syria<\/a>, but views the YPG forces are linked to the Kurdish PKK that has been fighting for self-rule in southern Turkey and worries that the YPG forces may cut a deal with Assad.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey and the US appear to have agreed to coordinate the troops withdrawal from the area to avoid a power vacuum that could draw a number of interested parties.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Zeina Khodr reports from Akcakale, on the Turkish-Syrian border.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The planned US troops pull-out will leave oil and agricultural-rich areas currently controlled by the Kurdish YPG vulnerable. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has repeatedly said that he wants to retake the enclave, but Ankara wants the areas handed over to representatives from Arab-majority towns that are currently under YPG control. Turkey has maintained that it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}