ISISを撲滅するためにアメリカはクルド人民防衛隊（YGP:Yekîneyên Parastina Gel）を支援し協力して来た。クルド人はISISとの戦いで11,000人もが戦死した。
一方トルコとクルド人との関係は長く複雑な関係がある。
クルド人は国を持たない民族として約3,000万人がトルコ、シリア、イラク、イランに別れて住むが、大半がトルコにいる。クルド人はクルド人国家を樹立したいため、長くトルコと対立して来ている。今回、ISIS掃討で大きな成果をあげたクルド人に対しシリアは感謝を示し、クルド人は来たシリアに自治区を得ることを希望しているが、トルコは、クルド人自治区がトルコに隣接してできることで国内にいるクルド人からの自治権要求が出ることを警戒している。クルド人部隊を利用し、支援して来た米軍が突然、クルド人を守る義務はないと一方的に撤退することで、トルコはアメリカのゴーシグナルを得たとクルド人を掃討し始めているのです。
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BBCは、アメリカとトルコの協議を下記の様に伝えています。
Turkey to suspend Syria offensive 'to allow Kurdish withdrawal'
BBC
Turkey has agreed to a ceasefire in northern Syria to let Kurdish-led forces withdraw.The deal came after US Vice-President Mike Pence and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met for talks in Ankara.All fighting will be paused for five days, and the US will help facilitate the withdrawal of Kurdish-led troops from what Turkey terms a "safe zone" on the border, Mr Pence said.It is unclear if the fighters of the Kurdish YPG will fully comply, however.Commander Mazloum Kobani said Kurdish-led forces would observe the agreement in the area between the border towns of Ras al-Ain and Tal Abyad, where fighting has been fierce."We have not discussed the fate of other areas," he said.Turkey's Syria offensive explained in four mapsViewpoint: Syria could be beginning of end for TrumpUK-based war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said clashes were continuing in Ras al-Ain despite the ceasefire announcement.
It said 72 civilians had been killed inside Syria and more than 300,000 displaced over the past eight days.
What prompted the offensive? Turkey launched the cross-border offensive last week, after US President Donald Trump announced he was pulling US forces out of the Syria-Turkey border region.
Its goal was to push back a Kurdish militia group - the People's Protection Units (YPG) - that Turkey views as a terrorist organisation.
Turkey had hoped to resettle up to two million Syrian refugees in the border area, but critics warned that could trigger ethnic cleansing of the local Kurdish population.
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