Pres. Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused the United States of arming ISIS, as well as Syrian Kurds, which he believes are allied with Kurdish separatists within Turkey. Erdogan also took the Barack Obama administration to task for giving ammunition to the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party and its armed wing, the People’s Protection Units (YPG). Turkey considers the PYD an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has fought Turkey for independence and autonomy in southeast Turkey since 1984. The US embassy in Ankara denied the Turkish government’s allegations.
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