If US wants Kurds at Syria talks, invite IS too, says Turkey

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If US wants Kurds at Syria talks, invite IS too, says Turkey

ISTANBUL: If the United States wants to invite Kurds to the upcoming Syrian peace talks it might as well invite the Islamic State Jihadist group too, said Turkey’s foreign minister on Saturday whose country views Kurdish fighters in Syria as extremists.

The Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed wing, the Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG), have been Western allies in the Syrian conflict but are condemned by Turkey, which will co-host the peace talks in Kazakhstan with Russia set for January 23.

Turkey calls the PYD a "terror group" for its links to Kurdish separatist militants in Turkey and has blasted the US repeatedly for working with the group on the ground in Syria.

A comment by a US State Department spokesman this week that Washington believes the PYD would "have to be a part of this process... at some point" infuriated Ankara.

"If you are going to invite a terror group to the table then you might as well invite Al Nusra and Daesh," Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters, referring to the former al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham Front, k**wn previously as Al-Nusra Front, and the so-called Islamic State (IS).

"We do **t deny the US role and contribution to the talks, but we expect the following from the new US administration: it must stop co-operating with terror groups," he said.

It was **t the first diplomatic spat over the heated Kurdish issue this week. A US Central Command tweet insisting its Kurdish allies were **t linked to outlawed militants whipped up a storm Thursday, with Ankara asking if Washington had "lost its senses".

Relations between the US and Turkey have become increasingly bitter in the last month, with Ankara expressing hope of a "new chapter" under President-elect Donald Trump.

While Washington has played a key role in attempts to bring Syria’s warring parties to the negotiating table in the past, it has been **tably absent from the cooperation between Ankara and Moscow to broker a nationwide ceasefire that is meant to pave the way for the January 23 peace talks.



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