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U.S. makes conflicting statements on Kurdish Peoples' Protection Units: Turkish FM

Xinhua, February 19, 2016 Adjust font size:

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Friday accused the United States of making conflicting statements on the Syrian Kurdish Peoples' Protection Units (YPG) that Ankara blamed for a deadly suicide bombing.

"When you look at some statements coming from the U.S., conflicting and confusing statements are still coming. We were glad to hear from John Kerry yesterday that his views on the YPG have partly changed," said Cavusoglu at a press conference after the 5th trilateral meeting of the foreign ministers of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey.

There is no good or bad terrorism in the world, and all forms of terrorism should be eliminated by the international community, said Cavusoglu.

On Thursday, the spokesperson of the U.S. State Department said the U.S. does not consider the YPG a terrorist group and Washington is not in a position to either confirm or deny Turkey's charge against the YPG for the Ankara bombing attack.

Cavusoglu confirmed that Turkey and Saudi Arabia will enhance their military crackdown on the Islamic State (IS) in Syria while accusing Russia of bombing civilian targets and moderate opposition in Syria, which has nothing to do with the IS.

Turkish authorities as well as Western countries have been blaming Russia for bombing civilian targets in Syria.

However, Moscow denies such allegations and insisted that all Russian airstrikes in Syria are carried out after repeated verification of reconnaissance information and through coordinated actions.

After the the trilateral meeting, Cavusoglu and his Georgian and Azerbaijani counterparts signed a joint declaration stressing the need to fight terrorism in all forms and settle the conflicts peacefully while respecting sovereignty and territorial integrity of all the countries.

For their parts, Georgian Foreign Minister Mikhail Janelidze and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov also expressed their joint efforts for promoting regional transport and energy projects, especially the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Railway and the Southern Energy Corridor Project. Endi