Akar: Turkey closely monitoring the situation in Northern Syria

Brussels: Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar confirmed that his country is closely monitoring the events in northern Syria.

Akar told reporters at the headquarters of the Permanent Mission of Turkey to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Brussels, in response to a question about the attacks of the YPG organization, the Syrian arm of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK): " We are closely following events there and will do what is necessary at the appropriate time and place." Akar stressed that the presence of his country's forces in Idlib contributes to preventing the massacres of the Syrian regime and the occurrence of new waves of migration.

"We have agreements with the United States and Russia (regarding some areas in northern Syria) and we have implemented our role in these agreements in the best possible way. We continue to do so, and we remind our counterparts to play their role as well."