MOSCOW – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is insisting on the need of eliminating Kurdish units in northern Syria, which, in his opinion, is posing the same threat, as the ISIL group banned in Russia.
“I want to emphasize that the terrorist organizations YPG [Kurdish People’s Protection Units] and PKK [Kurdistan Workers’ Party] are posing the same threat to calmness and stability of our region, as the terrorist organization Daesh [the terrorist group, which is also banned in Russia, along with ISIL],” Erdogan said at a press conference following the Russian-Turkish summit in Moscow on April 8.
“I believe that this threat should also be tackled along with Daesh,” the Turkish president added.
The Syrian crisis should be settled by diplomatic methods, he added.
“We also agreed with Russia that the crisis in Syria can be settled only by political means,” Erdogan said.
