Morning Star.png US Arming of Kurds Infuriates Turkey World Desk, The Morning Star, London, 15 October 2015 Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu lashed out at his US allies yesterday, complaining that arms supplies to Syrian Kurds could wind up in the hands of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and be used against his country's armed forces. He also warned Russia not to support the YPG (People's Protection Units) Kurdish militia group, saying: "No-one can guarantee that arms given to the PYD (Democratic Union Party) today won't tomorrow fall in the hands of the PKK and be used against Turkey. "Turkey cannot accept any kind of co-operation with terror organisations that have declared war against Turkey," insisted Mr Davutoglu. A Foreign Ministry official said in Ankara that Turkey had summoned the US and Russian ambassadors separately on Tuesday to convey the government's concerns. The US military said the previous day that cargo planes had dropped small-arms ammunition to Arab groups fighting the Islamic State group (Isis) in northern Syria. In the northern Syrian city of Kobane, Kurdish official Mustafa Bali added that Washington had provided 120 tons of weapons and ammunition to the main YPG militia fighting Isis in that area. US officials have been trying to persuade the YPG forces to turn their attention to the de facto Isis capital of Raqqa, which is 60 miles south of the Tal Abyad border town liberated by YPG in June. But this Arab town is an unlikely target for the Kurdish fighters, whose main priority is to link Kobane with the Kurdish enclave of Afrin, north-west of the city of Aleppo. Ankara, for its part, is opposed to any Kurdish advance west of the River Euphrates. From: <http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-888c-US-arming-of-Kurds-infuriates-Tur key#.Vh8h7Pmqqko> http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-888c-US-arming-of-Kurds-infuriates-Turk ey#.Vh8h7Pmqqko -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
