Turkey says it will join with neighbors to fight Islamic State group in Syria 

ISTANBUL — 

Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Jordan volition travel unneurotic to combat the remnants of the Islamic State group, a determination the Turkish overseas curate says would let the United States to chopped ties with Kurdish militants successful Syria.

Washington's decadelong narration with Kurdish-led forces successful Syria is opposed by Turkey. Ankara says the People's Defense Units, oregon YPG, are tied to different Kurdish radical listed arsenic a violent enactment by Turkey, the U.S. and the European Union.

The YPG, which spearheads the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, has played a cardinal relation successful warring IS alongside American peculiar forces and present guards thousands of IS prisoners successful northeast Syria.

"The basal occupation is that the YPG has been guarding Daesh inmates and keeping them successful situation … they're not doing thing else," Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Sunday, utilizing the Arabic word for IS.

"So Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Jordan request to travel unneurotic to combat Daesh. We are susceptible of doing that and God consenting this is the measurement we volition beryllium taking arsenic 4 countries successful the adjacent future. We person already done the preliminary talks for that process."

Fidan, who was speaking astatine a quality league successful Doha, Qatar, alongside Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, said that the caller Syrian authorities had indicated it volition instrumentality work for IS prisoners.

Turkey wants U.S. President Donald Trump to measurement backmost from supporting the Kurdish fighters, who Ankara regards arsenic terrorists owed to their links to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, oregon PKK, which has waged warfare against Turkey since 1984.

"We anticipation that President Trump volition marque the close determination and close this incorrect … it is an unfastened coiled that needs to beryllium closed arsenic soon arsenic possible," Fidan added.

Since Syrian rebels launched an violative to instrumentality the state successful November, Turkish-backed fighters person targeted Kurdish forces, taking a fig of towns. Meanwhile, the Turkish subject has maintained unit connected Kurdish fighters successful some Syria and bluish Iraq. On Sunday, the Defense Ministry said Turkish troops killed 23 "PKK/YPG terrorists" successful bluish Syria without providing further details.

Ankara has called for the Syrian Democratic Forces to beryllium purged of elements linked to the PKK and beryllium absorbed into a aboriginal Syrian military.

The U.S. presently has astir 2,000 troops successful northeast Syria. During his archetypal word successful office, Trump said helium would retreat each American forces from Syria, which triggered a Turkish violative against the YPG successful 2019.

His seemingly lukewarm narration with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has led to speculation that Trump volition again question to region the U.S. subject presence.