Turkey summons US ambassador to Ankara
Turkey has summoned the US envoy to the country over Washington’s assertion that Syria's Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) is not a terrorist group.
Tuesday’s move by the Turkish foreign ministry followed remarks by US State Department spokesman John Kirby, ruling out the organization as a terrorist one.
Ankara considers the group as an ally of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which it has been battling for months, but to the US, PYD is seen as part of the fight against the Daesh terrorists wreaking havoc in the region.
Responding to a question regarding the difference between the two states, Kirby said Monday that "This is not a new concern, as I said, that the Turks have proffered. And we don't, as you know, recognize the PYD as a terrorist organization."
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has previously hinted that military operations may be launched in Syria to tackle the YPG.
Ankara has used the chance to fight Takfiris in neighboring Iraq to also attack PKK militants, who have fighting for an autonomous Kurdish region inside Turkey since the 1980s.
Ankara has reportedly provided support for militants operating inside Syria along with some other US allies, namely Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
The Daesh Takfiri, who have been wreaking havoc in Syria Iraq and miles further in Libya, were initially trained by the CIA in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government.
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