Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Syria’s Ahmed al-Sharaa met in Ankara to discuss security cooperation, Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria, and a new defence pact. The talks signal a shift ...
DOHA/ISTANBUL, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Sunday he hoped President Donald Trump would end U.S. cooperation with the Syrian Kurdish YPG, as Turkey continued its ...
The defence ministry said the militants belonged to the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK. Turkey regards the PKK and YPG to be identical, while the ...
Turkey has long called on Washington to withdraw support for the YPG, and Turkish forces and their allies in Syria have repeatedly fought with Kurdish militants there since the toppling of Syrian ...