“The ceasefire is not binding for us when there is a situation that threatens Turkey’s security, we will take necessary measures against both the YPG [People’s Protection Units] and Daesh [Arabic acronym for Islamic State] when we feel the need to”, Davutoglu said to CNN Turk. Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus has said Turkey would continue to respond to cross-border threats but would not initiate any military action.
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Turkey, the USA and European Union have designated the group as a terrorist organization.
Russian Federation and the United States brokered the cease-fire, which does not include the Islamic State group or the Nusra Front, al-Qaida’s branch in Syria.
Turkey and Saudi Arabia’s support for the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization complicates fighting terrorism in the region, Syrian presidential adviser Bouthaina Shaaban said on Thursday.
“All must know that this ceasefire is only valid for Syria and the warring sides in the country”.
Shaaban clarified that Russia wants to implement this agreement and it means what it says, indicating the Syrian-Russian cooperation in counterterrorism, whose results are obvious through the deadly hits directed to the terrorists in Syria.
The announcement came hours after the United States and Russian Federation agreed on a new cease-fire for Syria that will take effect Saturday.
The Islamic State group has captured an important town in northern Syria, cutting supply lines for government forces between the northern city of Aleppo and central and western Syria.
Addressing dozens of local administrators in Ankara, Erdogan also voiced serious concern that the proposed truce will strengthen Assad and lead to “new tragedies”.
He has repeatedly called on Washington to decide who its allies are – Turkey or the Kurdish militia.
The state-run Anadolu Agency, quoting unnamed sources from the prosecutor’s office, said DNA tests confirmed that Somer, 26, had detonated the bomb. “I continue to ask for those details so that if those incidents are happening, then we can try to undertake efforts to address them or to reevaluate the very limited cooperation we have so far with the group fighting Daesh [ISIS]”, he official continued.
He warned the YPG and the PKK “not to support terror in Turkey” just because of the Syria ceasefire.
Ibrahim Kalin, spokesman for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, told reporters on Friday that the Saudi deployment to Incirlik air base has started.
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Turkey claims that its problem is with Y.P.G., but it is really more generally with Kurdish autonomy in Syria.
