 On 9 October, Turkish President Erdogan announced that the offensive against the SDF, Operation Peace Spring, had begun.The Kurdish Rudaw Media Network asserted that Turkey does not have a pressing "security concern" for a buffer zone at all, noting that Turkey had managed to successfully prevent any border crossings during the Siege of Kobanî without the need for a buffer zone.The Turkish Ahval agency reported that joint US-Turkish patrols suggested that the United States was "submitting" to Turkish demands and thus providing Turkey an 'entrée' into even more demands.