Erdoğan slams US for alliance with YPG

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday slammed the U.S. for taking part in a military convoy with the Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) Syrian branch, the Democratic Union Party’s (PYD) armed wing, the People’s Protection Units (YPG).

“It was upsetting to see the U.S. flag on the convoy. We will hold [U.S. President Donald] Trump to account,” Erdoğan said during a press conference before an official visit to India.

U.S. troops took part in a military convoy with the YPG in northern Syria, near Turkey’s border, and also attended the funerals of the terrorists neutralized in Turkey’s airstrikes in the region.

“Turkey, as a NATO ally and as a strategic partner, will continue to be disrupted by this [alliance between the U.S. and YPG]. It must end,” the president said.

“We will continue military operations in Sinjar and Karachok,” he added, referring to Turkish airstrikes conducted earlier this week that targeted PKK and YPG targets in the Sinjar Mountains in Iraq and the Karachok Mountains in Syria.

Both areas are approximately 90 kilometers from Turkey’s southern border.

Erdoğan also reiterated that Turkey could come to the Syrian and Iraqi regions where terrorist groups such as the PKK and YPG are prevalent overnight.