Pics of U.S. soldiers, wearing Kurdish YPG patches, fighting ISIS in #Syria, N. #Raqqa countryside. V @afp @akhbar. pic.twitter.com/JLTgdBkaD2
— Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) May 26, 2016
Photos of US soldiers wearing patches from the Kurdish People’s Protection Unit, or YPG, as they fight the Islamic State alongside Kurds in Syria have enraged Turkey’s foreign minister, who called the photos “unacceptable” on Friday.
“It is unacceptable that an ally country is using the YPG insignia. We reacted to it. It is impossible to accept it. This is a double standard and hypocrisy,” Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said, according to the Turkish daily newspaper Hurriyet.
The photos, taken by Delil Souleiman for AFP, have reignited the debate over Washington’s support for the YPG, with some calling the patches “politically tone deaf” and others insisting it is “perfectly normal.”
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US boots on the ground in Syria and Iraq. So many players in this war and it appears that Obama’s policy is to support each faction (friend and foe) to continue the proxy war, sell arms and alienate what few allies we have left.
David DeGerolamo
When faced with something that seems so complicated, it is usually the simplest answer.