Ankara to YPG: Retreat or be targeted

Turkey

yesterday said it would continue targeting a Syrian Kurdish militia in Syria if it failed to fulfil promises to retreat east of the Euphrates river.

“The YPG (People’s Protection Units) first of all ... needs to cross east of the Euphrates. So long as they don’t, they will be a target,” said Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. Ankara had said it had killed 25 Kurdish “terrorists” on Sunday, but the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 40 civilians were killed. (AFP)