Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to bomb Kurdish guerrilla in Syria to prevent the creation of Kurds autonomy in the border town of Tel Abyad, local press reported on Thursday.
Erdogan said that Turkey should not ask for anyone’s permission to "do what is necessary" regarding his country’s unilateral prohibition for Kurdish insurgency in Syria to cross west of the Euphrates River or the creation of autonomy in the Tel Abyad community.
The Democratic Union Party (PYD) has been considered by Russian president Putin as one of the few organizations, along with the Syrian army, that is fighting the ISIL.
PYD fighters captured Tel Abyad in June from ISIL and seized an extensive strip of land from this community to the east side of the Euphrates River, along the Turkish border.
Damascus has accused Ankara of training, financing and equipping armed groups, including the terrorist movement.
Erdogan, whose government recognizes his purpose of achieving the ousting of the legitimate Syrian president Bashar Assad, considered that the government is "determined to [combat] anything that threatens us along the Syrian border, inside or out."
Erdogan’s statements coincide with a meeting in Vienna with Foreign ministries from Russia, Iran, Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq, among others to discuss the Syrian conflict.
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