US receives Turkey's PYD message 'loud and clear,' Ankara says

My two previous columns were focused on an ongoing tension between the United States and Turkey over the former?s Oct. 10 airdropping ammunition to the Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD), which is considered a terrorist organization by the Turkish government.
 
Turkey summoned U.S. Ambassador to Ankara John Bass to the Foreign Ministry, which was followed by two key conversations: one at the foreign ministerial level and the other at the presidential level.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu was very vocal in expressing Turkish disturbance with Washington?s move of providing military logistics to the PYD, describing the move as an act against Turkey.

I have also reflected on Washington?s annoyance with Turkey?s overreaction in this column and have asked how this alliance between the two NATO countries would have an effect on their joint fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
 
When asked about the results of this intense diplomatic traffic between Turkish and American officials and whether the arms or ammunition supply will continue to the PYD, a Turkish source told me, ?The U.S. has received our message, and it received [the news] in a loud and clear way.?

?We have raised this question to them: Are you opting for 2000-strong PYD force to the 700,000 or 800,000-strong, second most powerful army in NATO?? the source said, hinting that Washington will no longer grant military support to the PYD, an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) in northern Syria.

The source also said that the U.S.?s strategy to fight ISIL was short-sighted and their intention to use the PYD turned into a scene in which the PYD is using Washington. It can be also said Turkey fully rules out any...