Several European countries have now suspended weapons exports to Turkey
A GROUP OF children greet a convoy of Turkish army vehicles returning from the Syrian side of the border by saluting the soldiers and raising their fingers in a victory sign. Behind them, a group of men gather by the side of a house partially destroyed by a rocket. Closer to the centre of town, Ahmet Toremen, a construction worker, walks past the broken window-frames, burnt mattresses and bloodstains covering the bottom floor of his ramshackle house.
For America, the YPG fighters have been indispensable partners, and heroes, in the ground war against the jihadists of Islamic State in Syria and parts of Iraq. To most Turks, they are no more than a wing of the PKK, a group responsible for dozens of deadly attacks, including a spate of suicide-bombings, across Turkey since 2015. America’s decision to team up with the group and to arm it has always been seen in Turkey as an act of betrayal.
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