{"id":393599,"date":"2019-01-21T10:11:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T09:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/turkey-can-take-over-manbij-security\/"},"modified":"2019-01-21T10:11:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T09:11:56","slug":"turkey-can-take-over-manbij-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/turkey-can-take-over-manbij-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey can take over Manbij security"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan<\/strong><strong> says his country is prepared to take over security in Syria\u2019s northern town of Manbij where a deadly bomb attack killed several American soldiers last Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Erdogan made the remarks in a phone conversation with US President Donald Trump on Sunday, according to a statement by the Turkish presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan told Trump that the attack was a &#8220;provocation&#8221; aimed at affecting his last month&#8217;s decision to pull US troops out of Syria, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Since the withdrawal announcement, Manbij has been a major bone of contention between Ankara and Washington over the fate of US-backed YPG fighters in the war-torn country.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2018\/12\/28\/584175\/Syria-Manbij-Kurds-Turkey-Army-assad\">the Syrian army<\/a> entered the city, marking the return of territories held by YPG militants to the government \u0628or the first time in years. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The city had been held by YPG militia, which Turkey regards \u0634\u0633 an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/01\/21\/586366\/US-Turkey-Syria-Erdogan-Manbij\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country is prepared to take over security in Syria\u2019s northern town of Manbij where a deadly bomb attack killed several American soldiers last Wednesday. Erdogan made the remarks in a phone conversation with US President Donald Trump on Sunday, according to a statement by the Turkish presidency. Erdogan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-393599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}