During his joint press conference with Trump, Erdogan stressed that militant groups like the PKK and YPG "will never be accepted."

"We should never allow those groups to manipulate the religious structure and the ethnic structure of the region, making terrorism as a pretext or an excuse," he added.

According to Steven Cook, senior fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, the issue of arming the YPG by the U.S. was among the top priorities on Erdogan's agenda.

"They see this as the United States siding with terrorists and midwifing a terrorist state on Turkey's border," said Cook in a briefing with reporters.

"President Erdogan was hopeful that he could make it clearer to President Trump why this order (to arm Syrian Kurds) that President Trump has signed is wrongheaded," he added.

While it remained unknow whether Trump would change course on arming Syrian Kurds, recent response from the U.S. State Department and the Pentagon indicated that a consensus had been reached across the Trump administration to arm Syrian Kurds in the fight against the IS.

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