Turkey, Ankara, August 22 — Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave a speech at the Turkish Presidential Palace discussing the ongoing problems with the possible formation of the Kurdish state in northern Syria.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe that my Kurdish brothers would never allow such a formation in northern Syria and southern Turkey. We are one nation within our country in a unitary structure. We are one nation with 80 million people. We have one flag, one homeland and one state. [We have] a homeland of 780,000 square kilometers. We will send those who want to break this nation apart to the grave,\u201d said the president, report from Hurriyet Daily News.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The president continued to discuss his concern with the US and Russian funding and supplying of PKK and PYG forces with military weapons.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe U.S. tells us, \u2018We have the serial numbers of all these armored vehicles. We will take them back when the Raqqa operation is over.\u2019 But I told the U.S. generals and Trump this: \u2018That was said to us before regarding northern Iraq, but now we see the U.S. and\u00a0Russia\u00a0from the weapons we confiscate from the\u00a0PKK\u00a0in northern Iraq. The same thing will happen here tomorrow. Even if we pay you wouldn\u2019t give us these weapons, but you supply [the YPG] with them for free.\u2019 Unfortunately we must keep talking about these things,\u201d says the president.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Source: Hurriyet Daily News<\/a><\/p>\n