Although the new Syrian authorities have shown openness toward them, the Kurdish forces, which lead the autonomous entity in the country's northeast, which Turkey has vowed to annihilate, have much to ...
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Sunday he hoped President Donald Trump would end U.S. cooperation with the ...
Turkish security forces "neutralized" 14 PKK/YPG terrorists in northern Syria, the country's National Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. The terrorists were targeted in the Operation Peace Spring ...
No country has as much to gain from a stable Syria as Turkey, and few have as much to lose if it implodes. Turkey is home to ...
Turkey considers the YPG, a key component of the US -backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a "terrorist" organisation due to its links to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Fidan made the ...
and the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia. Turkey considers the PKK and YPG to be identical; the United States considers them separate groups, having banned the PKK as terrorists but recruited the ...
Fidan said “a military operation” could be on the cards, although he added that the new Syrian leadership, for which Turkiye has voiced support, has the power to battle the YPG on its own.