{"id":1074,"date":"2017-10-20T17:30:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T17:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/us-eu-not-standing-with-turkey-in-terror-fight-erdogan\/"},"modified":"2017-10-20T17:30:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T17:30:47","slug":"us-eu-not-standing-with-turkey-in-terror-fight-erdogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/us-eu-not-standing-with-turkey-in-terror-fight-erdogan\/","title":{"rendered":"US, EU not standing with Turkey in terror fight: Erdogan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\u201cThey say they are standing with us in the anti-terror fight when we meet bilaterally. But we don\u2019t believe that. You are not with us. If you were with us, you would not protect them with your police forces,\u201d Erdogan said at the D-8 Summit in Istanbul on Friday.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe Turkish president made the remarks after the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) unveiled a large picture of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, imprisoned in Turkey, in the center of the Syrian city of Raqqa following the city’s liberation from the Daesh terrorist group this week.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tMilitants from US-backed SDF on Sunday launched an operation to retake the last pocket of the northern Syrian city of Raqqah, which served as Daesh Takfiri terrorist group’s de facto capital in the war-ravaged Arab country.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOn June 6, the SDF said it had launched an operation aimed at pushing Daesh out of Raqqah.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tTurkey considers PKK as a terrorist group and is fighting a bloody insurgency it waged inside the country since 1984, leaving tens of thousands of people dead.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe Turkish president denounced the display of the PKK leader\u2019s pictures and said, \u201cThey [Syrian Kurds] hung up posters of the chief terrorist in Raqqa. How will the US explain that?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\u201cIt [the US] says the PKK is a terrorist organization. EU countries also say that. But they hung up a poster of the chief terrorist on a building in France during a live broadcasting on their state TV station and the police just watched. How will they explain it? Is that solidarity in counterterrorism?\u201d Erdogan said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tPKK, which seeks independence through militancy, is designated as a terror group by Turkey, the European Union and the United States.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tMeanwhile, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m also on Friday slammed the US support for Kurdish forces and said Washington is \u201ccompromising the future of Turkey and Syria\u201d through its cooperation with the SDF.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\u201cThe display of the picture of the head of the PKK there [in Raqqa] hugely harms the US-Turkey alliance. With this attitude, the US is not only in cooperation with a terrorist group, it also compromises the future of both Turkey and Syria,\u201d Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe reiterated that Turkey regards the Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) and the Kurdish Democratic Party (PYD) as offshoots of the PKK.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\u201cWe have always said to our ally US that it is trying to cooperate with one terrorist organization in order to destroy another terrorist organization,\u201d the Turkish premier said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe added, \u201cWhat more does the US need to see in order to understand that the PYD and the YPG are terrorists?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tSpeaking to reporters on Thursday, Pentagon Spokesperson Dana White said Washington would continue to cooperate with the SDF.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tShe said, \u201cWe are working with the SDF. We work to help them focus on fighting ISIL (Daesh). That is our sole responsibility, our sole commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n

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