Turkey will respond to threats on its border

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Turkey will respond to threats on its border

ISTANBUL: President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday Turkey would **t watch passively as ******* are sent to Kurdish fighters on its southern border, saying his country would respond to any threats to national security.

The United States has been arming Kurdish YPG fighters taking part in the battle to recapture the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State, angering its Nato ally Turkey.

Ankara views the YPG as an extension of the Kurdish PKK group that has waged a long insurgency in southeast Turkey.

Turkey, Washington and the European Union have all designated the PKK as a terrorist organisation.

"We will definitely **t remain silent and unresponsive to the support and arming of terror organizations next to our borders and the forming of terror islands in the region," Hurriyet Daily News website quoted Erdogan as saying.

"We will **t hesitate to use our right to self defence against formations threatening the security of our country," Erdogan told a news conference at the G20 summit in Hamburg, according to the web site.

Erdogan expressed Turkey’s alarm at the US decision to arm the YPG at a White House meeting with US President Donald Trump in May.

The two men also met at the G20 summit.

Syrian rebels said on Friday they were preparing to join the Turkish military in a major new offensive against Kurdish forces in **rthwestern Syria, raising the prospect of yet a**ther front in an increasingly complex conflict.

Turkish officials have **t commented on any military preparations in **rthern Syria.

Turkish troops launched an incursion across the border last August in support of Syrian rebel fighters, targeting both Islamic State and the YPG."Any threat that may come from Syria or a**ther country towards Turkey -- this could be from Daesh, the (PKK) PYD/YPG, whatever terrorist organization it is from -- Turkey responds immediately with all reprisals," he said.

Turkey considers the PYD/YPG to be the Syrian offshoot of the PKK, a designated terrorist organization in Turkey, the US and EU.

More than 1,200 victims, including security personnel and civilians, have lost their lives in PKK attacks in Turkey since the terror group resumed its decades-old campaign in July 2015.



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