\nBRUSSELS\/ANKARA: Macron critizes Turkey’s aggression in Syria as “madness’, bewails NATO inaction<\/p>\n
\nFrance\u2019s President Emmanuel Macron has bemoaned Turkey\u2019s offensive into northern Syria as \u201cmadness\u201d and decried NATO\u2019s inability to react to the assault as a \u201cserious mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cIt weakens our credibility in finding partners on the ground who will be by our side and who think they will be protected in the long term. So that raises questions about how NATO functions.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nEU Council President Donald Tusk said the halt of Turkish hostilities is not a genuine cease-fire and called on Ankara to immediately stop military operations in Syria.<\/p>\n
\nDareen Khalifa, a senior Syria analyst at the International Crisis Group, said the cease-fire had unclear goals.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nThere was no mention of the scope of the area that would be under Turkish control and, despite US Vice President Mike Pence referring to a 20-mile zone, the length of the zone remains ambiguous, she said.<\/p>\n
\nSelim Sazak, a doctoral researcher at Brown University, believed the agreement would be implemented and the YPG would withdraw.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThe agency of the YPG is fairly limited. If the deal collapses because of the YPG, it\u2019s actually all the better for Ankara,\u201d he told Arab News. \u201cWhat Ankara originally wanted was to take all of the belt into its control and eliminate as many of the YPG forces as possible. Instead, the YPG is withdrawing with a portion of its forces and its territory intact. Had the deal collapsed because of the YPG, Ankara would have reason to push forward, this time with much more legitimacy.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Macron slams Turkey\u2019s aggression in Syria as \u2018madness\u2019, bewails NATO inaction BRUSSELS\/ANKARA: Macron critizes Turkey’s aggression in Syria as “madness’, bewails NATO inaction France\u2019s President Emmanuel Macron has bemoaned Turkey\u2019s offensive into northern Syria as \u201cmadness\u201d and decried NATO\u2019s inability to react to the assault as a \u201cserious mistake.\u201d \u201cIt weakens our credibility in finding…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41249","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\/41249","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=41249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}