Adana Agreement
The Adana Agreement ( Adana Mutabakatı in Turkish ) is an international agreement between Turkey and Syria .
The agreement was signed on October 20, 1998 in the Turkish city of Adana and regulates the ban on PKK activities in Syria. At that time, Syria granted Abdullah Öcalan refuge and expelled him under the agreement, as it allowed Turkey to advance up to 15 kilometers into Syrian territory “if there was a threat from terrorists”.
Both the establishment of a Turkish security zone in northern Syria in 2016 and the Turkish military offensive in northern Syria in 2019 are based, among other things, on the Adana Agreement. The agreement was supplemented in 2010 by the agreement called “Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Hükümeti ile Suriye Arap Cumhuriyeti Hükümeti Arasında Terör ve Terör Örgütlerine Karşı Ortak İşbirliği Anlaşması”, the validity of which was limited to three years and contained provisions for an extension.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Marten: Turkey and Syria: New Interpretation of Old Partnership FAZ , April 10, 2012
- ↑ Ayşe Karabat: The Syria conflict from a geopolitical point of view: Getting Erdoğan on board Qantara.de , February 8, 2019
- ↑ Syria: Turkish Invasion or Agreement with Damascus? Rosa Luxemburg Foundation website , April 2019
- ^ Paul-Anton Krüger, Christiane Schlötzer: Pact between the Kurds and the Syrian government: Defense Minister Akar makes the rounds with the opposition parties SZ , October 14, 2019
- ↑ Volker Pabst: Turkey is increasingly isolated in Syria - this is not a problem for Erdogan in the short term, but it is for his country in the long term. In: NZZ. October 13, 2019, accessed on October 18, 2019 : “A conceivable solution for Moscow would therefore be to mediate negotiations between Asad's regime and the Syrian Kurds, as well as between Damascus and Ankara, which would end with a new version of the Adana Agreement. In 1998, Syria pledged to Turkey not to allow any support from its territory to the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). "
- ↑ https://tele1.com.tr : HABER 1998 yılında imzalanan ve Türkiye-Rusya zirvesinde gündeme gelen Adana Mutabakatı nedir? Retrieved October 23, 2019 .