Russia Says Takes All Measures For Turkey's Border Security, Safe Zone Exceeds Agreement

Russia Says Takes All Measures for Turkey's Border Security, Safe Zone Exceeds Agreement

Russia's has taken all necessary measures to ensure Turkey's security along the Syrian-Turkish border, so much so that the safe zone exceeds its agreed upon parameters of 5 kilometers (some 3.1 miles) all along the border, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday

MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 28th February, 2020) Russia's has taken all necessary measures to ensure Turkey's security along the Syrian-Turkish border, so much so that the safe zone exceeds its agreed upon parameters of 5 kilometers (some 3.1 miles) all along the border, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday.

"Russia has taken all necessary measures to ensure Turkey's security along the Syrian-Turkish border... [the safe zone] significantly exceeds the five kilometers indicated in the famous Turkish-Syrian Adana Agreement and de facto takes up 30 kilometers," Peskov said to reporters after a Security Council meeting headed by President Vladimir Putin.