Turkey after ‘joint mechanism’ with US to collect arms from Syrian Kurds

‘Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Isik says Ankara wants a “joint mechanism” with Washington to take back weapons supplied to the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) once the US-backed militiamen manage to drive Daesh Takfiri terrorists out of Syria’s northern city of Raqqah.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with Turkish-language NTV television news channel, Isik stated that he is set to discuss the issue with his US counterpart Jim Mattis on June 28 and on the sidelines of a NATO meeting in the Belgian capital Brussels.
Mattis, in a letter addressed to his Turkish counterpart on Thursday, said that Washington would take back all weapons provided to the Kurds once Raqqah is liberated.
The Turkish minister noted that Mattis’s letter to him points to the fact that the United States has taken into consideration Turkey’s security concerns regarding the YPG, which is a major component of the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).’
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