Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that if northern Syria is not cleared of terrorists at the end of 150 hours as agreed by Ankara and Moscow in Russia's Sochi, "Turkey will handle it and do all the cleaning single-handedly.", Trend reports citing Xinhua.
Speaking at an event in Istanbul, the Turkish leader also urged the world to respect his country's sensitivity to the security of its borders and support its plan to create a safe zone in northern Syria along the border.
"We are working to establish a safe zone to prevent the PKK, YPG and Daesh attacks against our country from Syria," he said, referring respectively to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, the People's Protection Units and the Islamic State.
Erdogan stressed that Turkey achieved its goal regarding the safe zone to a large extent.