The Turkish army has shelled Kurdish-held positions in northern Syria for a second day, a Turkish government official told many news agencies.
On Saturday, Turkey urged the fighters with the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), the armed wing of the Syria’s Democratic Union Party (PYD), to leave areas it captured in the northern part of the city of Aleppo.
The US sees the PYD as a close ally in the campaign against ISIS in Syria.
Ankara believes that the PYD is the Syrian wing of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), which has been at locked in battle with Turkish forces for more than 30 years. The PKK is seen as a terrorist organisation by the US and EU, while the PYD is not.
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