Turkey takes aim at ISIS, but also targets America's Kurdish allies

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ISTANBUL – Even as Turkey on Wednesday launched a major ground incursion into Syria -- backed by U.S. warplanes and advisers -- to cleanse ISIS from its border, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sparked a war of words with America’s most effective ally against the radical Islamist militants.

 

Ankara’s longtime nemesis, the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), has been instrumental in battling ISIS in both Syria and Iraq, but the party is seen as a terrorist group blamed for numerous bombings linked to Kurdish rebels inside Turkey. Regional experts say both Turkey and the PYD may share a common enemy in ISIS, but their real enemies are each other.

 

“This morning at 4 a.m. an operation started in northern Syria against terror groups which constantly threaten our country, like ISIS and the PYD,” Erdogan said Wednesday.

 

The Turkish strongman’s warning and refusal to distinguish between the two groups came after Kurdish PYD leader, Saleh Moslem, sent a message of his own as Turkish armor rolled into Syria.

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