Turkey summons US ambassador over Syria Kurds row
Source: AFP
Ankara (AFP) - Turkey's foreign ministry summoned the US ambassador on Tuesday after a senior American official angered Ankara by saying that Washington did not consider the main Syrian Kurdish party to be a terrorist organisation.
The Hurriyet newspaper reported that the Turkish government, which views the Democratic Union Party (PYD) as a terrorist group, expressed its "unease" to US ambassador John Bass over the remarks by State Department spokesman John Kirby.
Kirby had told his daily press briefing in Washington on Monday: "We don't, as you know, recognise the PYD as a terrorist organisation. We recognise that the Turks do, and I understand that. Even the best of friends aren't going to agree on everything."
Ankara considers the PYD and its military wing, the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), to be affiliates of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has waged an armed insurgency in Turkey.
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