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Sunday, February 7, 2016
Erdogan furious at US official’s trip to Syrian town freed by Kurds
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleTurkey’s president lashes out at the United States a week after President Barack Obama’s envoy visits a northern Syrian town reclaimed from the Islamic State by Syrian Kurdish forces that Ankara considers terrorists.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says in comments published today that Washington must choose between Turkey and the Kurdish Democratic Union Party, or PYD, as its partner.
Brett McGurk last week visited Kobani, where the PYD’s military wing, aided by US-led airstrikes, drove back IS a year ago. Turkey considers PYD a terror group because of its affiliation with Turkey’s outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.
Erdogan says: “How can we trust you? Is it me that is your partner or is it the terrorists in Kobani?”
— AP
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