Alwaght- Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to crush a United States-led border army led by the terrorist PKK/PYD Kurdish groups.
“The US has admitted to forming a terrorist army along the Turkish border," vowing that Turkey would kill that army before it is born.
On Sunday, the US-led international coalition announced that it would establish a 30,000-strong new border security force with the SDF -- the US-backed group, largely controlled and manned by the PKK/PYD Kurdish groups. The PKK/PYD is the Syrian offshoot of the PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey.
“It is this 30,000-strong terrorist army that will point a gun at the US soldiers there when they get into trouble,” Erdogan said at a conference in Ankara.
“Lower your flags on the bases of terrorist group by yourself so that we won’t have to hand them over to you,” he warned Washington.
Turkey has long protested U.S. support for the PKK/PYD terror group, while Washington has brushed off these criticisms, saying it needs the terror group’s help to fight against Daesh in Syria.
Listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU, the PKK has waged a terror campaign against Turkey for more than 30 years, leading to the deaths of more than 40,000 security forces and civilians -- including more than 1,200 since July 2015.
