Sputnik - Washington and Paris are seemingly seeking ways to mend fences with Turkey after Ankara's trust in the US has largely been undermined, Turkish analysts suggested while speaking to Sputnik. The US and France want to boost their positions in Syria, however, it is unlikely that they will succeed in the near future, they added.




It is highly unlikely that US President Donald Trump will withdraw from�Syria any time soon, while French President Emmanuel Macron's pledges to�mediate between�Ankara and the Kurdish militias on�the ground is nothing but�wishful thinking, Turkish analysts told Sputnik.
"Just 15 days ago Trump said that Obama's withdrawal from�Iraq was a mistake and that he would not take such a step in�Syria," Baris Doster, political scientist at�Marmara University, told�Sputnik Turkey. "Moreover, by�now the US has invested heavily in [Kurdish] self-defense units and the Democratic Union Party (PYD) which they regard as�their ground force. To date [the US] has supplied Kurdish formations with�5,000 trucks of�weapons, while planning to�create a regular 50,000-strong army out�of the members of�these formations."


According to�Doster, there are at�least 20 American bases in�the territory of�Syria. The Turkish political scientist suggested that having made such huge investments, the Americans are unlikely to�leave the country.
On March 29 President Trump remarked that the US may "very soon" pull out�of Syria: "We're knocking the hell out�of ISIS [Daesh]*. We'll be coming out�of Syria, like, very soon. Let the other people take care of�it now. Very soon� we're going to�be coming out�of there very soon."