Saudi fighter jets headed for Turkey to join fight against IS

“And it seems to me, the United States, if we’re going to work with the PYD or any group that’s associated with an enemy of Turkey – it has to prove its bonafides”, he said.

“Recently, the Turkish political elite really gives the grounds for us to believe those who think that imperial ambitions are reappearing in Turkey”.

The interruption is also bad news for European refiners which have been snapping up relatively cheap Kurdish barrels over the past year, boosting profits and already being spoilt for choice in an oversupplied market.

The truce will run for two weeks and will prevent fighting between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces and anti-government groups.

Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday that he expects the warplanes, which are to allegedly take part in an air campaign against Daesh Takfiri group in Syria, to be stationed at the Incirlik later in the day or on Friday.

“We hold our original position that the Democratic Union Party [PYD] and the Kurdish self-defense forces [YPG] are terrorist organizations”.

“The ceasefire is not binding for us when there is a situation that threatens Turkey’s security, we will take necessary measures against both the YPG and Daesh when we feel the need to”, Davutoğlu said in the central province of Konya, Daily Sabah reports.

“To us, YPG is a terrorist organisation the same as Daesh (IS) and (Al-Qaeda affiliate) Al-Nusra”, the prime minister said. The PYD has emerged one of the effective ground forces in the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

“We are talking with the Turks right now about how to proceed in ways that do not cross important lines for them and that respect the sensitivities of the region and I’m confident we will be able to do that”.

In a public cemetery next to a military air base in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast, flags of a Syrian Kurdish militia are draped over numerous tombstones.

He says the cease-fire would have “no meaning if Russian Federation continues with its irresponsible bombings”.

A militant Kurdish group claimed a suicide vehicle bomb that killed 29 people in the capital Ankara last week but Turkish officials said the bomber was a Syrian Kurd working on behalf of the PYD, which has denied being behind the attack.