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title: "Turkey Urges Us, Russia To Cut Support To Ypg"
date: "2017-03-10 16:45:01"
author: "DHA"
tags: "İstanbul", "transfer", "Ankara"
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# Turkey Urges Us, Russia To Cut Support To Ypg
İstanbul, Mar 10 “What is important for us is to clear Manbij of YPG elements. Why did the YPG come there? To establish its terrorist canton and to gain more territory,” FM Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Thursday.  
“That’s why it wants to join the Raqqa operation. It won’t return after the DAESH \[an Arabic acronym of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant\] is kicked out of Raqqa,” Çavuşoğlu told Ankara bureau chiefs of media outlets on Thursday.  
“The YPG is using the fight against the DAESH Following its victory in al-Bab, Turkey said its next target would be Manbij to push the YPG forces to the east of the Euphrates River; Russia, however, forced the Syrian Kurdish group to transfer control of the region to the Syrian government while the United States deployed more forces to the same area in a bid to halt a potential Turkish operation.
