Turkish FM warns patience running out over SDF integration deal

Türkiye does not want to resort to military action again against Syria’s Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), but patience is running out due to delays in implementing an agreed integration framework, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on December 18.

Speaking in an interview with TRT World, Fidan said Ankara hopes the issue can be resolved through dialogue and negotiations, Caliber.Az reports. 

“We just hope that things go through dialogue, negotiations and peacefully. We don't want to see any need to resorting to military means again. But SDF should understand the patience of the relevant actors are running out,” he said. 

Fidan stressed that the SDF must honour its commitments under the agreement reached on March 10.

"They should come to a place where their commitment to the agreement of 10th of March should be honoured. Everybody is expecting from them to honour that agreement without any delay and without any twisting,” he said, adding that deviations from the agreement are not desired.

The Syrian government presented the SDF with a final 13-point proposal outlining terms for integration into the Syrian army.

By Sabina Mammadli