<p style="text-align: left;">U.S. President Donald Trump will make sure Kurds are protected while giving Turkey of a buffer zone in northern Syria to put to rest the country&amp;rsquo;s concerns regarding the Kurdish People&amp;rsquo;s Protection Units (YPG), NBC news reported U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham telling reporters on Sunday after a lunch with Trump.

Trump would be &ldquo;talking to Turkey about assuring [the Turks] that they will have a buffer zone,&rdquo; given &ldquo;their concerns about the YPG Kurds,&rdquo; Graham said, adding, &ldquo;You got the Kurds that we need to be concerned about… They stepped up when nobody else would, and [the President] is very aware of that problem.&rdquo;
Graham&rsquo;s meeting with Trump follows the U.S. announcement of a full withdrawal from war-torn Syria earlier this month, amid plans by Ankara to start a third military operation into the country aimed at the YPG Kurdish militia, which Turkey designates a terrorist organisation and extension of the Kurdistan Workers&rsquo; Party (PKK).
Washington may make some changes to its military positioning in Syria to accommodate Ankara&rsquo;s objections to the leading role the YPG have played within the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is spearheading the war against the Islamic State (IS), Graham said.
The senator, a close ally of the U.S. president, added that Trump told him about his plans in Syria which "make me feel a lot better about where we're headed" in the Middle Eastern country.
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