Turkey Urges US End Working With Kurds Amid Airstrikes on Syria
- Turkey hits America’s Kurd allies after US downs Turkish drone
- Turkey vows to maintain military operations in Syria, Iraq
Fire rages at the Zarba oil facility in al-Qahtaniyah in northeastern Syria close to the Turkish border on Oct. 5.
Photographer: Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images
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Turkey called on the US to stop working with Kurdish YPG militants in Syria, vowing to maintain its cross-border offensives against America’s Kurdish allies in Syria after the US shot down a Turkish drone in the region.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken “with strong expressions that the US, as an ally, should stop working with the terrorist organization YPG in northern Syria, ” according to a readout statement from Turkey’s Foreign Ministry.