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Tuesday, January 15, 2019
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Turkey is planning an offensive against the YPG in Syria. The United States reacts: President Trump threatens to "economic destruction" – and then he called the head of state Erdogan. The consequences are a reversal of tendency and an offer in Ankara.
After his threats against Turkey, US President Donald Trump has now offered closer ties to Ankara. Trump said after a telephone conversation with Turkey president Recep Tayyip Erdogan that there was "great potential for a" significant expansion "of economic cooperation between the two countries. He talked about it with Erdogan.
Only Sunday, Trump had threatened that the United States would "economically destroy" Turkey, Ankara would have to attack the Syrian Kurdish militia YPG. On Monday's phone call Trump warned his Turkish colleagues now, according to the White House, against a move against Kurdenkämpfer.
Addressing the Kurdish popular defense units (YPG) has provoked fierce fighting between the United States and Turkey for years. Ankara sees the Syrian Kurdish militia as a threat as it is closely linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has fought the Turkish state for decades. However, the US is supporting the YPG with weapons and air strikes in the fight against the jihadist militia of the Islamic State (Syria) in Syria.
Turkey has repeatedly acted militarily against the YPGs in northern Syria. President Erdogan threatens again and again for weeks with a new offensive. The withdrawal of all US troops from Syria, announced by Trump in December, leaves the Kurds' concerns about the increase of the Turkish offensive.
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