In a blistering Jan. 11 editorial in The Washington Post, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu didn’t mince words: “Turkey has been expected to endure the morally bankrupt cooperation between our strategic ally and the YPG/PYD. As the PKK is ever emboldened to continue its terrorist campaign, the Turkish people are justifiably asking some hard questions,” he wrote.
Cavusoglu was referring to the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), its political wing the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the militia fighting for Kurdish autonomy in Turkey.