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Turkey hopes US will end support of Syrian Kurdish YPG, says Deputy PM

Turkey says, it hopes that the United States will end its policy of supporting the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia. Turkish Deputy Prime Minister, Nurettin Canikli today said, Ankara could not accept US support for the group. <br/><br/>He said in Ankara that Turkey cannot accept the presence of terrorist organisations that would threaten the future of the country. <br/><br/>Turkey views the YPG as the Syrian extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which is considered a terrorist group by the United States, Turkey and Europe. <br/><br/>US President Donald Trump has approved supplying arms to the YPG to support their fight against Islamic State in Syria.

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