ANKARA/BEIRUT ¨C Turkey urged the United States on Thursday to halt its support for Kurdish YPG fighters or risk confronting Turkish forces on the ground in Syria, some of Ankara¡¯s strongest comments yet about a potential clash with its NATO ally.
The remarks, from the spokesman for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan¡¯s government, underscore the growing bilateral tensions, six days after Turkey launched its air and ground operation, ¡°Olive Branch,¡± in Syria¡¯s northwestern Afrin region.
In Washington, the Pentagon said that it carefully tracked weapons provided to the YPG and would continue discussions with Turkey.
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