ANCHOR. Determined to clear the “nest of terrorists” in Syria, the President of Turkey appeared yesterday Tayyip Erdogan, speaking at the conference of ambassadors in the Turkish capital. “Hopefully we can close the security zone by ridding the area of ​​the last terrorist hideouts in Syria. Our decision on a 30km security zone along our southern border remains in place,” the Turkish president said, according to a report by the pro-government newspaper Sabah.

Erdogan argued that Ankara reserves the right to conduct a new operation on Syrian territory, since USA as well as Russia they violated their obligations to protect the region from the “terrorist threat”, as the Turkish president calls the Kurdish YPG militia fighters fighting on the side of the West against the Islamists. In his speech, Erdogan reaffirmed that Ankara’s position on Sweden and Finland’s NATO candidacy remains firm and that the two countries’ membership in NATO will not continue if their counter-terrorism commitments are not met.

prefabricated houses

Meanwhile, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu yesterday announced the completion of 62,000 prefabricated houses in northern Syria’s Idlib province, as part of initiatives to stabilize and normalize daily life in that martyred province of Syria. “The huts were built for the proud, voluntary and safe return of our Syrian brothers to their land,” Soylu said in a Twitter post. There are currently about 5 million refugees in Turkey, most of them from Syria and Afghanistan.