Turkey is offering to “join forces” with Washington for a special operation inside Syria on condition it doesn’t include a Syrian Kurdish militia blacklisted by Ankara but seen as an ally by the US, the Foreign Minister said.
Washington’s support of Kurdish fighters in Syria in the fight against ISIS jehadis has angered Ankara, especially after AFP pictures last week revealed US commandos wearing patches of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) outlawed by Turkey.
“If we join forces, they (the US) have their own special forces and we have our special forces,” Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told a small group of journalists.
