{"id":72627,"date":"2019-10-18T11:34:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T11:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=72627"},"modified":"2019-10-18T11:34:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T11:34:15","slug":"turkey-to-pause-military-offensive-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/turkey-to-pause-military-offensive-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey to pause military offensive in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The United States and Turkey have agreed to a temporary cease-fire in northern Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The truce was announced by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence after talks in Ankara with Turkey&#8217;s President Tayyip Erdogan, and was swiftly hailed by President Donald Trump, who said it would save &#8220;millions of lives&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nine days into Turkey&#8217;s invasion of northern Syria, Ankara agreed to pause military operations for 120 hours while the United States facilitates the withdrawal of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces from a 20-mile safe zone along the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said, once the Kurdish fighters, which Turkey views as terrorists, are removed from the area, Ankara will implement a permanent cease-fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost immediately after Pence spoke, Turkish Foreign Minister pushed back on how Pence framed the agreement, telling reporters it was a &#8220;pause&#8221; in Turkey&#8217;s operations but &#8220;not a cease-fire because a cease-fire takes place between two legitimate parties&#8221; and the operation was aimed at removing &#8220;terrorist elements&#8221; from the region.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States and Turkey have agreed to a temporary cease-fire in northern Syria. The truce was announced by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence after talks in Ankara with Turkey&#8217;s President Tayyip Erdogan, and was swiftly hailed by President Donald Trump, who said it would save &#8220;millions of lives&#8221;. Nine days into Turkey&#8217;s invasion of [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72629,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72627\/revisions\/72629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}