Turkey will take all necessary measures to protect its national security in the face of recent developments in Syria, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, speaking with NATO’s secretary general Jens Stoltenberg on the phone.
Erdogan said that "the creation of a force" expected to be led by the SDF command and controlled by the PYD/YPG terrorist organization is entirely unacceptable to Turkey.
Stressing that Turkey is an important country for NATO, Stoltenberg said that NATO was not consulted on the matter of creating this so-called army, Yeni Safak reported.
The phone conversation followed a recent U.S. decision to form a border protection army in Syria with the terrorist PYD/PKK.
On Saturday, Turkish security forces hit several PKK/PYD targets in Afrin to prevent a "terror corridor" from forming along Turkey's borders.
