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A10 WORLD NEWS
Saturday 9 November 2019
Turkish patrol kills Syrian protester amid shaky truce

By MEHMET GUZEL ish-Russian vehicles as they
BASSEM MROUE drove, throwing stones at
Associated Press them. A man is seen trying
IDIL, Turkey (AP) — A Syr- to mount one of the vehi-
ian protester was killed af- cles and then men can be
ter a Turkish military vehicle heard shouting, apparently
ran him over on Friday as after the man is run over.
it drove through an angry Other videos from the area
crowd protesting a joint show men, women and
Turkish-Russian patrol in children pelting armored
northeastern Syria, Kurd- vehicles as they drive near
ish forces and a Syria war a cemetery before speed-
monitoring group said. ing away.
The fatal incident reflects There was no immediate
the increasingly complicat- comment from the Russian
ed political geography in military about the incident.
northern Syria in the wake Mutafa Bali, a spokesman
of U.S. decision to pull its for the Kurdish-led Syrian
troops away from the bor- Democratic Forces, or SDF,
der and redeploy them tweeted that Turkish troops
further south. The decision fired tear gas on protesters
earlier this month was fol- in Derik, injuring 10 people.
lowed by a Turkish invasion In this photo taken from the outskirts of the village of Alakamis, in Idil province, southeastern The town is controlled by
in northeastern Syria and Turkey, a Turkish army vehicles is driven in Turkey after conducting a joint patrol with Russian SDF and American forces,
a series of deals between forces in Syria, Friday, Nov. 8, 2019. but the Turkish troops were
Turkey and Russia, as well Associated Press passing through on the pa-
as between the Syrian gov- (75 miles) long inside Syria. changed their focus to key convoy with shoes and trol.
ernment in Damascus and The deal also arranged for south of the border to se- stones, prompting Turkish The agreement with Rus-
U.S. allies, the Kurdish-led joint Turkish-Russian patrols cure oil bases, controlled troops to fire tear-gas to sia — and the separate
forces. on the flanks of the Turkey- by the Kurdish-led forces. disperse the protesters. one with the U.S. — halted
The Turkish Defense minis- controlled area and for The Turkish invasion and Ten people were hospital- the Turkish invasion of Syr-
try said Friday's joint patrol Syrian Kurdish fighters to the shift of powers on the ized, according to the Ro- ia last month but fighting
from the Syrian city of Qa- withdraw from border ar- ground has been unsettling java Information Center, on the edges of the area
mishli city to the town of eas, Ankara's key demand. for residents of the area — an activist operated group now controlled by Ankara
Derik "has been completed Turkey considers Syria's many of whom are Kurds in Kurdish-held areas. continues. Turkish Presi-
as planned with due care dominant Kurdish group an who have either fled the The Syrian Observatory for dent Recep Tayyip Erdo-
and attention to the safety extension of its own Kurdish Turkish invasion or are feel- Human Rights, a war moni- gan complained this week
of our personnel and the insurgency. ing abandoned by U.S. toring group, said the man that Syrian Kurdish fighters
public against the provo- Moscow said Russian heli- troops. Nearly 200,000 have was run over in the village were still present in areas
cateurs." It said the patrols copters flew aerial patrols been displaced by the of Sarmasakh near the bor- along the border, despite
were being supported by over the area for the first fighting, amid warnings of der by a Turkish vehicle that the agreements. He also
drones. time on Thursday. Sepa- demographic change to was conducting a joint pa- said Turkish troops were be-
The Russia-Turkey deal en- rately, Russia negotiated an the Kurdish-populated bor- trol with the Russians — the ing attacked by some Syr-
dorsed a cease-fire after arrangement that would der areas. third under the cease-fire ian Kurdish fighters from ar-
Turkey's invasion and es- allow Syrian government The man killed Friday was deal brokered by Moscow. eas they had retreated to,
tablishment of a Turkey- troops to deploy along the among a group of resi- Videos circulating online adding that Turkey would
administered stretch of border. dents who had chased and Friday show a group of not "remain a spectator" to
land, about 120 kilometers Meanwhile, U.S. troops pelted the joint Russian-Tur- men running after the Turk- these assaults.q

Russian foreign minister lambasts US over arms control

that the world is becoming control system. It has be- refusing to make a similar
increasingly unstable be- come a drag for Washing- pledge. He also noted that
cause the U.S. doesn't want ton, an undesirable restric- the U.S. appears reluctant
to abide by arms control tion that limits the U.S. abil- to extend the New START
regimes. ity to expand its military po- treaty, the last remaining
Speaking at a conference tential around the world." arms control deal between
on disarmament in Mos- Earlier this year, Russia and Russia and the U.S., which
cow, Sergey Lavrov ac- the U.S. both withdrew from expires in 2021.
cused the U.S. of seeing the 1987 Intermediate- "Its extension would pre-
arms control treaties as a range Nuclear Forces (INF) vent the total collapse of
constraint to its efforts to Treaty. the arms control mecha-
boost its military. The U.S. said it pulled out nism and would give time
"In the past few years, because of Russian viola- to study approaches to
strategic stability has de- tions, a claim the Kremlin control new military tech-
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks during a joint graded to a point that is has denied. nologies," Lavrov said.
news conference with Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias unprecedented in modern Lavrov reaffirmed Russia's "Washington, however, has
following their talks in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019. history," he said. pledge not to deploy mis- shunned serious talk and
Associated Press "The U.S. has continuously siles banned by the treaty publicly sent negative sig-
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's moved toward destruction until the U.S. does so, and nals about the treaty's pros-
Associated Press foreign minister said Friday of the international arms criticized NATO allies for pects." q