On Thursday, Turkey agreed to a cease-fire in northern Syria on terms decided between itself and the United States. The cease-fire came nine days into Turkey’s military offensive against the Syrian Kurds, who Turkey considers a terror threat based on their ethnic ties to the Kurdistan Workers Party. Over 300,000 are estimated to have fled their homes in the region under attack, and according to the UN 71 deaths have been confirmed thus far. The United States is caught in the middle, as Turkey is a NATO ally while the…