- Title: Erdogan meets Balkan leaders as Turkish military arrives at Syrian border
- Date: 8th October 2019
- Summary: BELGRADE, SERBIA (OCTOBER 8, 2019) (REUTERS) TURKISH PRESIDENT TAYYIP ERDOGAN WALKING INTO MEETING VENUE, EMBRACING SERBIAN PRESIDENT ALEKSANDAR VUCIC CAMERA BEING HELD IN AIR ERDOGAN, VUCIC AND MEMBERS OF BOSNIAN PRESIDENCY STANDING FOR OFFICIAL PHOTO ERDOGAN STANDING FOR PHOTO CAMERA OPERATOR FILMING ERDOGAN, VUCIC AND MEMBERS OF BOSNIAN PRESIDENCY WALKING AWAY
- Embargoed: 22nd October 2019 15:39
- Keywords: Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turkey military operation in Syria Turkish troops at Syria border
- Location: BELGRADE, SERBIA
- City: BELGRADE, SERBIA
- Country: Turkey
- Topics: Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001B08LC1Z
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan met with the leaders of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia in Belgrade on Tuesday (October 8) as Turkish soldiers and military arrived at the border with Syria.
Turkey says it has finalised preparations for a military push into northeast Syria, after the United States began pulling back troops from the Turkey-Syria frontier area.
The U.S. move will leave Kurdish-led forces long allied to Washington vulnerable to attack by the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK), which brands them terrorists because of their links to Kurdish militants who have waged a long insurgency in Turkey.
U.S. President Donald Trump meanwhile denied the Kurds had been abandoned by the U.S. pullback, praising Turkey as a trade partner and NATO ally, hours after threatening Ankara's economy if it acted "off limits" in Syria.
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