Originally posted by sir shovelhands
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“It will be a pause for 120 hours while the US oversees the withdrawal of the YPG [a Kurdish unit within the SDF] … Once that is completed, Turkey has agreed to a permanent ceasefire,” Pence said, adding that preparations were already underway.
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“Our people did not want this war. We welcome the ceasefire, but we will defend ourselves in the event of any attack … Ceasefire is one thing and surrender is another thing, and we are ready to defend ourselves. We will not accept the occupation of northern Syria,” the Kurdish political leader Saleh Muslim told local television.
The rub is that I dont see the Kurds leaving all of towns in the "safe zone" the Turks proposed. I dont see why they would, or how a safe zone in another country you occupy, would ever work either though.
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