Turkey: US needs to withdraw from Syria's Manbij region immediately
Tehran (KNA) - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says US military forces need to immediately withdraw from Syria's northern region of Manbij.
Speaking to reporters in the capital Ankara on Saturday, Cavusoglu said Turkey wanted to see concrete steps by the United States to end its support for the Syrian Kurdish force.
The remarks came hours after the Turkish presidency announced in a statement that Presidential Spokesman Ibrahim Kalin and US National Security Adviser Herbert Raymond McMaster had discussed Turkey's ongoing Operation Olive Branch in Syria's northwestern Afrin region during a telephone conversation the previous night.
McMaster said that Washington would not give more weapons to YPG militants.
The two senior officials also agreed to boost mutual coordination and clear up misunderstandings on issues concerning Syria, the statement added.
Source: Press TV