US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu endorsed in a Washington meeting a roadmap to ensure stability in the Syrian city of Manbij, the US Department of State said in a press release on Monday.
"They considered the recommendations of the Turkey-US Working Group on Syria pertaining to the future of our bilateral cooperation in Syria on issues of mutual interest, to include taking steps to ensure the security and stability in Manbij," the release said.
"They endorsed a Road Map to this end and underlined their mutual commitment to its implementation."
Turkey has been infuriated by U.S. support for the Kurdish YPG militant group in Syria and has threatened to push its offensive in the Afrin region of northern Syria further east to Manbij.
At their talks in Washington, Çavuşoğlu and Pompeo also discussed cooperation in Syria, along with potential steps to improve security in Manbij, they said in a joint statement.
They gave no details regarding the roadmap or its timetable.
However, Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency said last week that Turkey and the United States had reached a technical agreement on a three-step YPG withdrawal plan in Manbij. The U.S. State Department later denied those reports.
Further meetings of the working group mechanism to deal with other issues between the United States and Turkey will continue to take place, the release added.
