Turkey accuses Syrian Kurds of ethnic cleansing

Turkish

Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu accused the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia yesterday of ethnic cleansing in northern Syria, saying they were trying to put their own people in areas captured from Daesh.

“Those people that were forced to leave these places should be placed back in these regions, they should live there, but that is not the YPG’s aim. The YPG is engaged in ethnic cleansing, they are placing who they want to in those places,” Cavusoglu told a news conference in Ankara. (Reuters)