Erdogan tells Putin Syria 'safe zone' is 'imperative'

ISTANBUL: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Monday it was essential to create a “safe zone” inside Syria near the Turkish border, his office said.
Under a 2019 agreement, Russia and Turkey agreed Russian military police and Syrian border guards would start driving a Syrian Kurdish militia 30 kilometres (19 miles) away from the Turkish border.
Ankara views the militia as a terrorist organisation.
Erdogan told Putin in a phone call that “a…