Turkey\u2019s National Security Council, the country\u2019s top security body, warned on Wednesday against supporting PKK\/YPG\/PYD saying it went contrary to the notions of friendship and alliance.<\/p>\n
The statement came after a closed-door meeting in Ankara, which lasted over four hours under the chairmanship of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has been stressed that a policy of supporting the PKK\/PYD\/YPG terror organization — which is acting under the guise of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) — does not suit [the principles of] friendship and alliance,\u201d a statement released after the meeting read.<\/p>\n
The YPG-backed Syrian Democratic Forces have been Washington’s principle partner in the anti-Daesh fight in northern Syria, vexing Ankara. U.S. support for the YPG has threatened to upend relations between Washington and Ankara.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n The council in the statement also questioned the freedom to operate that “terrorists” appear to benefit from in various countries, despite Turkey\u2019s warnings.<\/p>\n Ankara has frequently voiced its frustration after various demonstrations organized by the PKK terror group, namely in European countries.<\/p>\n “It has been noted that establishing a strategic cooperation with Turkey — which has considerable experience in the fight against terrorism \u2013 will constitute a benefit all around the world,\u201d said the statement.<\/p>\n \u201cIt has been stated that terror attacks in Afghanistan, Germany, Belgium, France, Iraq, Britain, Sweden and Pakistan have shown one more time how much Turkey is right in its calls for cooperation in order to prevent terrorism,” it said.<\/p>\n The statement also noted that Turkey\u2019s relations with the European Union should be improved in line with Turkey\u2019s full membership goal with lifting obstacles to visa-free travel and opening new chapters and fulfilling its commitments with regard to aid to provided for refugees.<\/p>\n It also said the meeting focused mainly on measures, taken inside and outside of the country, against various terror organizations.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 13)<\/span>\n Anadolu Agency<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Security council says support of PKK\/PYD\/YPG terror organization does not comply with notions of friendship, alliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,101,174],"tags":[3219,5028,9925],"class_list":["post-58936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-politics","category-turkey-daily","tag-pkk","tag-security-council","tag-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}