Turkey told Washington’s envoy it took the “strongest” exception to a U.S. statement on the massacre of 13 Turkish citizens over the weekend, said the Turkish Foreign Ministry.
“Those who cannot clearly condemn the PKK terrorist organization cannot talk about the fight against terrorism,” Çelik has said.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed the United States and opposition Kurdish politicians in an attempt to deflect responsibility for a failed rescue operation.
While the prosecutor’s office has launched an investigation into the social media posts about the 13 soldiers and police officers who died during a military operation in northern Iraq, the HDP has released a statement about the losses of life.
Referring to the US statement on the incident where 13 security personnel lost their lives in the Gare region in Iraq’s north, President and ruling AKP Chair Erdoğan has accused the US of “siding with the PKK and YPG.”
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