Trump justified his decision by saying that the US deployment of troops in northern Syria was simply too costly. Turkey, Europe, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Russia and the Kurds will now have to figure the situation out”, Trump added. An autonomous administration, under the control of the Kurdish-led SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces), controls this region, North and East Syria, described as Rojava. The Turkish plan, as explained by Erdogan, includes establishing 140 villages, 10 towns, altogether building more than 200,000 homes, and a university. Many of them have just recently escaped from other areas of Syria and Iraq where heavy fighting directly threatened them.

Source: The North Africa Journal October 10, 2019 14:26 UTC