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One of President Tayyip Erdoğan's most important aims in his first official meeting in the White House with U.S. President Donald Trump was to dissuade him from his decision to arm the PYD/YPG and conduct a joint operation with them to seize Raqqa, despite the fact that PYD/YPG is very openly an arm of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). 

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on May 18 that Brett McGurk, the U.S. special envoy to the coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), should be removed from his post as he "supports terrorist groups."

President Tayyip Erdoğan had two main expectations from his May 16 meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.

By the time you read this article, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's meeting with President Donald Trump will be over. I wish I could be a fly on the wall to predict the discussions inside the White House, but my instinct tells me that whatever is spoken inside will be dictated by a force outside Washington - the Kremlin.

A top U.S. commander has said the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is an element of the coalition fighting Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), only to correct his remarks later.

Citing the lyrics of a popular Turkish love song, President Tayyip Erdoğan said on April 30 before departing for India that Turkey could "come overnight, all of a sudden without warning." He was referring to operations against the positions of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Iraq and of the People's Protection Units (YPG) positions in Syria, (the YPG being the Syrian extension of

Turkey appears to be hoping that its bombing this week of Sinjar in Iraq and Rojava in northern Syria will enable it to intervene in those countries on a larger scale.

The Turkish military "retaliated" to a rocket attack on a Turkish border post in the province of Şanlıurfa from areas controlled by the Peoples' Protection Units (YPG) in Syria on April 28, the army said, killing 11 militants. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has slammed the 44th U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel over the former's alleged failure to abide by a mutual agreement about the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the latter's hesitance over congratulating him for the "Yes" side's narrow triumph in the April 16 referendum.

Turkey has "successfully accomplished" its months-old military operation into northern Syria, but troops will not be withdrawn soon from the regions under Ankara's control as it seeks ensure life returns to normal in the area, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has said.