Turkey proposed to the United States that the People’s Protection Units (YPG) withdraw to the east of the Euphrates river in Syria and that Turkish and U.S. troops be stationed together in the country's Manbij area, a Turkish official said on Friday.
The official said the U.S. was considering the proposal, which was made to U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during his ongoing visit to Ankara.
The YPG is the armed wing of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), which is the Syrian offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the European Union and the U.S.
The U.S. and the coalition have largely ignored the PYD/YPG links to the PKK.
The U.S has supplied the PYD terror organization with more than 5,000 truckloads of weapons to allegedly use in the fight against Daesh, despite Ankara’s warnings that the group is the Syrian offshoot of the PKK terror organization.
The U.S. has stated that these weapons are all registered and will be collected once the fight against Daesh is over. However, PKK/PYD terrorists still possess those arms and are using them against Turkey despite the defeat of Daesh.
