US officials promote propaganda video targeting NATO-ally Turkey despite US admissions that the YPG is a Syrian offshoot of the PKK terrorist organisation
several times that the arming process was temporary and the supply of weapons and ammunition would be limited to what the YPG need to carry out specific operations against Daesh.that the coalition "supports the military training of SDF specifically for the mission to defeat ISIS [Daesh] remnants in eastern Syria".
The YPG is the backbone of the SDF, and US reliance on and support of the group has angered Ankara and strained the two countries’ relations.that the YPG terror group rebranded itself as the SDF to gain the legitimacy necessary for a seat at the Syrian negotiation table. US President Donald Trump has repeatedly stated that Daesh is 100 percent defeated, but the US Department of Defense has already allocated $300The YPG and its offshoots have been documented several times carrying posters of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan at events they organise, chanting the same slogans as the PKK, such as "Long Live Leader Apo", and openly admitting that their loyalty lies with Ocalan.
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