{"id":58593,"date":"2018-11-06T21:40:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T21:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/11\/06\/turkey-joint-us-kurdish-patrols-in-syria-are-unacceptable\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T12:25:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:25:43","slug":"turkey-joint-us-kurdish-patrols-in-syria-are-unacceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/11\/06\/turkey-joint-us-kurdish-patrols-in-syria-are-unacceptable\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey: Joint US-Kurdish patrols in Syria are \u2018unacceptable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ANKARA, Turkey \u2014 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan<\/a> said Tuesday that joint patrols by U.S. forces and a Kurdish-led militia in northern Syria are \u201cunacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State group and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces conducted two joint patrols last week after Turkish artillery shelled Kurdish positions<\/a> in northeastern Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey considers the Kurdish militia that forms the backbone of the SDF an extension of the Kurdish insurgency within Turkey. U.S. support for the Kurdish-led forces, who retook large areas from ISIS, has raised tensions between the two NATO allies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech to MPs of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. (Burhan Ozbilici\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

“Not only can we not accept (the joint patrols), such a development will cause serious problems at the border,” Erdogan told reporters at parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, a bomb went off inside a car in the northern Syrian town of Manbij, killing one person, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Manbij Military Council, which administers the town.<\/p>\n\n\n\t