Date: Mar 7, 2019 Source: The Daily Star Erdogan: Turkey must control planned northern Syria safe zone Reuters ANKARA: Turkey cannot accept control of a planned safe zone in northern Syria being given to anyone else, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday. In interview with broadcaster Kanal 24, Erdogan also said that if the United States could not take back the weapons it had given to the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia in Syria, it should give them to Turkey.