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Turkish President Erdogan Accuses U.S. Of Arming Kurdish ‘Terrorists’

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has accused the U.S. of arming “terrorists” who recently carried out a deadly suicide bombing in the heart of the capital Ankara on Wednesday. The Turkish President blames the Kurdish rebel group YPG- who have been defending their territories in Syria from the Islamic State/ISIS terrorists and who have been under attack by Turkish military- for Wednesday’s deadly suicide attack in Ankara, and accuses Barack Obama of arming them. Gulf News reports: US support for the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), which Washington considers a useful ally in the fight against Daesh, has enraged Turkey and risks driving a wedge between the Nato allies. Turkey sees the group as a terrorist organisation linked to Kurdish militants waging an insurgency on its own soil. Erdogan and the Turkish government have said the PYD’s armed wing, the YPG, was responsible for a suicide car bomb attack in the administrative heart of the capital, Ankara, on Wednesday, which killed 28 people, most of them soldiers. Erdogan said he was saddened by the West’s refusal to call the PYD and YPG a terrorist group, and would explain to Obama by phone how weapons provided by the US had aided them. [...]