Turkey, U.S. Agree On Buffer Zone

  • Middle East Newsline
  • March 28, 2012
ANKARA [MENL] -- Turkey and the United States have agreed to establish a
buffer zone along northern Syria.
Officials said Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan and U.S. President
Barack Obama agreed that Ankara would launch a buffer zone along its
southeastern border with Syria. They said the buffer zone, located along the
911-kilometer border, would accommodate refugees who were fleeing the bloody
campaign of President Bashar Assad.
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