Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says that it was "only a matter of time" before Syrian Kurdish fighters -- seen by the West as essential in the fight against Islamic State jihadists -- will be wiped out. Turkey sees the People's Protection Units (YPG) -- the main component of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) -- as a terror group linked to its outlawed domestic foe the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
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00:00Thank God, there has been a major clean-up in Turkey.
00:04Our brothers in Iraq are not concerned about the occupation in Sinjar.
00:08We don't know why this is happening.
00:10I think it will be resolved after a while.
00:12But on the other hand, the conditions in Syria have changed.
00:15We hope that the removal of the PKK and YPG from Syria will be a matter of time.
00:23As for Syria, I think we have one position.
00:27We want Syria to regain its security, stability, and well-being.
00:34We want the Syrian people to rebuild their homeland on the foundations that guarantee
00:41its security, stability, freedom, and sovereignty, and preserve the rights of all Syrian people.