Erdogan slams USA for supporting Kurdish fighters

“Hey, America. Because you never recognized them as a terrorist group, the region has turned into a sea of blood”, Erdogan said bluntly.

European Union member states could be flooded with refugees by Turkey, the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said.

Washington supports the PYD Syrian Kurds in the battle against Islamic State in Syria.

Turkey has made strides in securing its border with Syria, President Barack Obama’s envoy to the anti-Daesh coalition said Wednesday.

CNN supposes the possibility Syrian Kurds and their PYD Party being invited into multi-party peace talks sparked Erdogan’s fury against the United States, a possibility that stokes Turkish fears of a Greater Kurdistan forming across territory in Syria, Iraq, and Turkey.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said his country appreciated the “very careful way of working Turkey chooses to prevent an uncontrolled entry” of refugees from Syria.

Erdogan also said he had previously told the EU’s two top officials, Jean-Claude Juncker and Donald Tusk, that the time could come when Turkey would open the gates for migrants to travel to Europe.

Air strikes by the Syrian regime and its Russian allies have sent tens of thousands more people fleeing to the border with Turkey, which is already home to some 2.5 million refugees from Syria and hundreds of thousands from Iraq. “We are making preparations for it”, Erdogan said in a speech to a business forum in Ankara.

“If you’re putting one of them on your terror list, and ignoring the other, that’s naive to say the least – and unacceptable”, Cavusoglu said while on an official visit to Hungary.

More than 260,000 people have been killed and half the population displaced in Syria’s complex, multi-front war over the past five years. “We believe the YPG is focused thus far on combating Daesh in Syria, and we’ve supported them in that effort”, he said at a briefing. “And we’re going to continue to have discussions with everybody about how we can all put the proper amount of intensified pressure on this group [Daesh]”.

US ambassador in Ankara John Bass has been summoned to the Turkish Foreign Ministry Tuesday midday over “support” remarks by a State Department spokesman concerning the terrorist organization PKK’s Syrian affiliate, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), APA reports quoting Anadolu agency.

Shamoyev expressed hope that the rights of the Kurdish people to have their own “culture, language and self-governance” would be guaranteed by Syria’s constitution and that Russian Federation would help them with that.