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Yair Lapid welcomes US calls to sanction Turkey, says world must protect Kurds
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleBlue and White MK Yair Lapid is the first Israeli politician to respond to US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw US troops from Syria, abandoning the country’s Kurds ahead of an expected Turkish incursion.
“I join my friends Senator Lindsey Graham and Senator Chris Van Hollen in their call to impose sanctions on Turkey and suspend it from NATO in response to any attack on the Kurds in northern Syrian,” Lapid says in an English-language statement.
“I also welcome President Trump making the cost of any such attack absolutely clear to Erdogan,” the Turkish leader.
“The world has a moral responsibility to the Kurds who led the fight against ISIS and paid with their blood.”
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