ANKARA, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- The time for a ceasefire to withdraw the Syrian Kurdish fighters ends at 22:00 local time (1900 GMT) on Tuesday, a Turkish security official told Xinhua, noting that Turkey's Armed Forces will target any Kurdish fighters if they remain in the area after the truce.
If any People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters remain after the deadline, they will be "neutralized," the security official told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
A total of 125 trucks of the YPG left the area of a "safe zone" as of Monday to the direction of al-Hasakah, said the official.
Turkey aims to clear off the YPG to create a safe zone as part of the ceasefire, according to the official.
The United States and Turkey on Oct. 17 reached an agreement on a five-day truce and the establishment of a safe zone in northern Syria, where the Turkish forces had been fighting against the Kurdish militia.
"Turkey's military operation will pause for 120 hours," U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said at a press conference following a closed-door meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Ankara sees the YPG as the Syrian offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which is outlawed for its armed struggle against Turkey over the past three decades, while Washington used the Kurdish fighters as ground forces against the Islamic State militants in Syria.
