Turkey’s overseas minister has accused the Biden administration of not telling the reality to Congress and the American individuals, because it prolonged the manager nationwide emergency order in Syria.
On Thursday, the US prolonged its state of emergency order – issued in 2019 when Turkey launched a army operation into northern Syria – for an additional 12 months. In a letter issued that day by the Biden administration, which regarded notably much like the one issued by the Trump administration two years in the past, it claimed that Turkey’s army presence and actions in northern Syria pose a menace to nationwide safety.
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Truly Trump used precisely the identical sentence in opposition to Turkey in October 2019, when Ankara had one other Syria incursion. pic.twitter.com/qSkxPHZbNg
— Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu) October 8, 2021
Mevlut Cavusoglu hit again throughout a joint press convention together with his Venezuelan counterpart Felix Plasencia on Saturday, stating that “As a substitute of blaming Turkey, the US ought to abandon its personal improper insurance policies, and must be extra sincere with the American individuals and its Congress.”
Çavuşoğlu famous the similarities of the letter to the Trump administration’s, calling it a “copy-paste” effort. He stated that the explanation for the renewal of the decree “is the US’s cooperation with the YPG terrorist organisation, which the US takes very severely.”
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Since 2015, Washington has supported, backed, and armed Kurdish militias in Syria such because the Individuals’s Safety Models (YPG) and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). That help has lengthy angered Ankara, which regards these militias as Syrian branches of the designated terrorist organisation, the Kurdistan Staff’ Occasion (PKK).
The US continues to insist, nevertheless, that it backs the militias for the aim of combatting components of Daesh inside Syria, the place scattered cells of the fear group proceed to persist.
Cavusoglu denies these claims, although, stressing that “we [Turkey] know very properly that the aim of being right here is to not combat in opposition to Daesh…we now have fought in opposition to Daesh. In NATO and the world, the one military that’s preventing in opposition to it’s our military.”
