{"id":47831,"date":"2019-10-26T12:35:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T04:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=47831"},"modified":"2019-10-26T12:38:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T04:38:32","slug":"turkey-issues-diplomatic-note-over-u-s-planned-talks-with-syrian-kurdish-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=47831","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Issues Diplomatic Note Over U.S. Planned Talks With Syrian Kurdish Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ANKARA, Oct 26 (NNN-ANADOLU) &#8211; Turkey issued a diplomatic note to the United States, over the latter&#8217;s plan to meet with leader of the Syrian Kurdish People&#8217;s Protection Units (YPG), Ferhat Abdi Sahin, also known as Mazloum Kobani, Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, said on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Mazloum Kobani is a terrorist. Therefore, it is unacceptable for our allies to meet with a terrorist &#8230; especially having high-level talks. Such a thing cannot happen,&#8221; the minister told reporters in Baku, Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ankara has issued a diplomatic note to U.S. officials, over their plans to meet with the Syrian Kurdish leader, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. should hand him over to Ankara, Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said on in a televised interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. President, Donald Trump, earlier voiced his plans to meet Kobani, while a group of American senators asked the State Department to provide visa documents for the YPG leader for such a visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ankara sees the YPG as the Syrian offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party, which is outlawed for its armed struggle against Turkey over the past three decades. But U.S. troops fought the Daesh militants in Syria, with the help of the YPG fighters.&#8211; NNN-ANADOLU <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA, Oct 26 (NNN-ANADOLU) &#8211; Turkey issued a diplomatic note to the United States, over the latter&#8217;s plan to meet with leader of the Syrian Kurdish People&#8217;s Protection Units (YPG), Ferhat Abdi Sahin, also known as Mazloum Kobani, Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, said on Friday. &#8220;Mazloum Kobani is a terrorist. Therefore, it is unacceptable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":47835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,209,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47831"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}