Turkey summons US envoy over remarks on Syria operation

Turkey has summoned the United States’ ambassador to Ankara, John Bass, to express the government’s disturbance over statements issued by Washington that suggested a loose agreement had been reached between Turkey and the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) group. 

“It has been underlined that such statements are by no means acceptable and that they do not comply with the alliance relationship,” read a statement issued by Tanju Bilgiç, spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry, Hurriyet Daily News reported.

Bilgiç’s statement came after Ash Carter, the US secretary of defense, Brett McGurk, the US special envoy to coordinate the fight against Daesh and spokespersons from the Department of Defense and the White House each urged Turkey to stop clashing with the PYD in northern Syria. 

Turkey’s concerns over such remarks were dispatched to Bass by Undersecretary of the Foreign Ministry Ferdiun Sinirlioğlu on August 30.

Source: MENA