Turkey is upset that the US is arming what they perceive as a terrorist group to fight against IS, a group we perceive as a terrorist group too which both groups have been US military equipment to fight with against the US and Turkey. Got that? – PB/TK
U.S. decision to arm Syrian Kurds threatens Turkey: foreign minister – By Tulay Karadeniz and Tuvan Gumrukcu l May 10 2017
Turkey urged the United States on Wednesday to reverse a decision to arm Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State (IS) in Syria, saying every weapon supplied to the YPG militia constituted “a threat to Turkey”.
The angry reply came a week before President Tayyip Erdogan is due in Washington for his first meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, who approved the arms supply to support a campaign to retake the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State.
Turkey views the YPG as the Syrian extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has fought an insurgency in southeast Turkey since 1984 and is considered a terrorist group by the United States, Turkey and Europe.
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