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Turkey has no choice but to act alone given too little progress has been made with the United States in forming a "safe zone" in northeastern Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said, according to Al Jazeera report.

As the source reminds, Turkey and the United States have agreed to establish a zone along 480km of the border that Turkey wants to be 30km deep. Under the Turkish plan, up to two million Syrian refugees would be settled in the area that would be cleared of the Syrian Kurdish militia People's Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara deems "a terrorist organisation".

Since agreeing to set up the zone in northern Syria, Turkey has repeatedly warned of unilateral military action if efforts do not meet its expectations, saying it would not tolerate any attempts by the US to stall the process.

"We plan to settle two million people in the safe zones we will establish. We calculated the costs and we will carry out efforts to improve. We will start taking steps as soon as the region is saved from the invasion of terror," Erdogan said at the parliament's opening ceremony in Ankara.