国际英语资讯:Spotlight: Turkeys operation against Kurds in Syrias Afrin strains ties with U.S._时事

国际英语资讯:Spotlight: Turkeys operation against Kurds in Syrias Afrin strains ties with U.S.

"If the United States really means what it says, then there is risk of a serious rupture in Turkish-U.S. relations," he added, noting that much will depend on Turkey's response.

Top Turkish officials have repeatedly said that the army would also wipe out the YPG in Manbij as well as in the other two YPG-held cantons on the eastern part of the Euphrates River.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim expressed Thursday Ankara's frustration with Washington's support for the Kurdish militia, regretting U.S. cooperation with terrorist organizations.

Underlining that is unacceptable for Ankara, he said Turkey would not allow any terrorist entity to exist along its border.

The United States has fought the Islamic State in Syria, along with the YPG as a reliable ground force, to whom it also provided arms.

Ties between the two NATO members have been highly strained for long due to U.S. military support to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) of which the Kurdish militia constitutes the backbone.

Ankara sees the emergence of a YPG-controlled belt along its border with Syria as a major threat to national security.

Trump's homeland security adviser, Tom Bossert, was more blunt in his warning to Turkey as he spoke Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos in Switzerland.

Turkish troops' clash with the proxy forces the United States is using against IS would have a terrible outcome, especially if such a clash would take place in areas where U.S. advisors are present, Bossert was quoted as saying.