Turkey will have no business in Syria's Manbij if YPG leaves, says Erdogan
Tehran (KNA) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country’s military forces will have no business in Syria’s northern town of Manbij once Kurdish militants from the US-backed People's Protection Units (YPG) withdraw from the area.
"These areas belong to Syria. We are against the division of Syria. Our sole aim is to remove all terrorist organizations from there. Once terrorist organizations have left the area, we will have nothing left to do there," Erdogan told reporters in Turkey's largest city of Istanbul after Friday prayers.
He added that Ankara's goal is to teach the YPG terrorist group a lesson, and it is determined to make such a thing happen.
The remarks came after Syria's military announced it had taken control of Manbij, which lies in mainly Arab territory west of the Euphrates.
Source: PressTV