The UN's agreement with YPG over child soldier recruitment draws flak from Ankara
The YPG couldn't deny recruiting child soldiers in northern Syria and Ankara blasted the UN for taking"a terrorist organisation with blood on its hands as an interlocutor to address this problem."a deal with an international fugitive and notorious YPG militant Ferhad Abdi Sahin, who has an Interpol Red Notice warrant for playing a crucial role in the armed group that is affiliated with the PKK, a recognised terrorist organisation by the US, Turkey, the EU and NATO.
The meeting drew criticism from Ankara with the Turkish foreign ministry slamming the UN for entertaining the YPG and its representative Sahin, who operates under his nom de guerre Mazlum Abdi. Turkey's political leaders, government officials and political experts have already voiced concerns about the Western bloc's attempts to normalise the YPG and present it as a political alternative in northern Syria.
“As a result, this effort is part of a continuing Western policy, which has long tried to bring legitimacy [to the terror group] to create [a political] actor [out of the YPG],” Erkmen added, speaking toErkmen said the US and its allies are making efforts to create an autonomous region in northern Syria run by the YPG or PKK leadership.
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