BT: It looks like it is the Kurds in trouble not the Syrians? In that area live Kurds and some Syrians. But why does Erdogan ('Mr Turkey') want a 20 km safe zone, by driving out the Kurds? If they are driven out ,who would replace them? Is his intention to expel the 3 million Syrians already in Turkey,to settle there and fill that vacuum? If it is ,then why did they leave Syria?Because of the fighting ,the bombing etc ,or their fear of President Bashar al-Assad? If they are Sunni Arabs,then al-Assad is their enemy? After all the Government in Syria is an Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party,who have remained the dominant force in Syria, with al-Assad ruling them with an iron fist! Turkey will withdraw ,but it can only do so knowing a solution is agreeable also to Turkey. Bashar al-Assad would not want Turkey invading its land, and that now, is where the Russians come in. That would be Putin's task,to formulate a peaceful solution! They say peace is the result of a fight ,but just where does that leave the Kurds??