"PYD/YPG has committed crimes against humanity”

 

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu attended the gathering of coalition foreign ministers.

Çavuşoğlu told the gathering of coalition foreign ministers that members must work with "legitimate partners," stating that the PKK’s Syrian off-shoot is responsible for more than 300 attacks in the last two years against Turks and Syrians.

That includes, the Turkish top diplomat said, firing over 1,000 rockets and mortars on Turkish towns as Turkish casualties have approached 200. 

"PYD/YPG has committed crimes against humanity," he said, citing mass killings and assassinations among others during the ministerial meeting at the State Department. "We expect all our Coalition partners to disengage from PYD/YPG."

"Thanks to Operation Peace Spring, PYD/YPG agenda to establish a terror statelet is now in ruins. Syria’s territorial integrity and unity is enforced. A long-standing terror threat to Turkey is contained," he added.