Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Friday that the new Syrian administration should be given an opportunity to address the presence of Kurdish militants in the country, and reiterated that the Turkish military would act if it did not.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Monday that eradication of the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria was "imminent", and that Ankara would not agree to any policy that allowed the YPG to maintain a presence there.

Discussions are underway about deploying U.S. and French troops to secure a border zone in northern Syria, amidst tensions between Turkey and Western-backed Kurdish Syrian forces. Key players like France and the U.