PYD recruits 8,000 foreign fighters, mostly American

At least 8,000 foreign fighters, mostly from America, are fighting shoulder to shoulder with the Democratic Union Party (PYD) terrorist group in Syria.

Despite strong concern from Ankara the US administration continues its arm and logistic support to the Syrian affiliation of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorist organization.

Turkish government announced the both group as same terrorist organization and they are no different from Daesh to Turkey. But the US government has said Washington sees PKK as a terrorist organization, but PYD as a resistance group fighting against Daesh terrorists.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said, “If a terror group fights against another terror group, it doesn't make them normal."

US-PYD relations are no a secret anymore, as US President Obama sent his special representative Brett McGurk to Kobani, a PYD-controlled city in northern Syria, where he met with PKK terrorist Can Polat, who introduces himself as Commander of the so-called Rojava Army. A photograph which was taken during his visit emerged that McGurk received a plaque from the so-called YPG general.

The Obama administration also delivered a large number of arms and ammunition to the group near Turkish border. US military officials also provided street fighting and sniper training to the terrorist group, who then used the technique against Turkey in recent military-PKK clashes in southern region.

For months, the Turkish military has been conducting “sweeping operation" in northern Turkish district of Sur, Cizre and Silopi against the PKK terrorists trained and equipped by the US military in Syria. The operations in Cizre and Silopi have been completed successfully, while clashes are continuing in Sur district where security forces are facing difficulties due to PKK snipers.

Turkish security sources said previously that some foreign snipers attack on military-police joint forces in southeastern cities of Cizre and Sur as PKK terrorist used US-made weapons in recent clashes.

According to sources from Syria, at least 8,000 foreign fighters, most of them former military personnel, fighting for PYD in Syria while some of them crossed into Turkish to join PKK.

The sources said that most of the PYD foreign fighters are from the US, Belgium, France, Germany and Israel.

Meanwhile, the Turkish government reiterated that there was no difference between PYD and Daesh to Ankara and the Turkish military is ready to destroy all threats to the Turkish border, whether from PYD, PKK, Daesh or other terror groups.