Trump's False Claim about Syrian 'Safe Zone' - FactCheck.org

In explaining his decision to pull U.S. forces from northern Syria and allow Turkey to set up a “safe zone” in Syria, President Donald Trump falsely claimed that Turkey has lost “thousands and thousands of people from that safe zone.” “This is entirely fictional,” Asli Aydıntaşbaş, a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, told us in an email. https://www.factcheck.org/2019/10/trumps-false-claim-about-syrian-safe-zone/