We are the nation that suffers the most from our neighbor's conflict: Erdoğan

In a written interview with Newsweek, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused the United States of supporting terrorists in Syria. “We are the nation that suffers the most from the conflict in neighboring Syria. The U.S. is not supporting the Syrian Kurds, but terrorists. We are the ones supporting the Syrian Kurds and defending their rights. The PKK/PYD/YPG terrorist organization (the Kurdistan Workers' Party, banned as a terrorist group in Turkey) is carrying out terrorist activities under the guise of the SDF. It particularly targets the Syrian Kurds. These are the terrorists that the U.S. supports, threatening Kurds, Arabs, and Turkmen in the region and driving them from their lands,” said the Turkish leader.

According to him, the solution to all conflicts lies in a new social unification in Syria, based on territorial integrity. “We want Syria to be not a country where regional and global powers are engaged in armed struggle but a prosperous state free from terrorism and governed by Syrians,” declared President Erdoğan.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), composed largely of the Kurdish YPG self-defense units with American military support, control much of Syria's Al Hasakah and Raqqa provinces, as well as some settlements in Aleppo and Deir ez-Zor provinces. Notably, they control most neighborhoods in the cities of Al Hasakah and Qamishli. The official Damascus does not recognize the autonomous administration in northeastern Syria.