Turkey's invasion of northeastern Syria has prompted protests from other NATO nations and opened up cracks in the alliance.
Erdogan was seeking to clear U.S.-allied Syrian Democratic Forces from a buffer area along the border between the two countries.
Ankara considers the YPG an extension of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which has been fighting an intermittent guerrilla war in Turkey since the 1980s. Aybet added that Turkey's NATO allies have"failed to understand" the nature of Ankara's concerns over the Kurdish statelet across its border, which she said is a prominent"national security threat."
This prompted a vicious riposte from Erdogan, who advised that Macron should"have your own brain death checked." He added,"These statements are suitable only to people like you who are in a state of brain death.", accusing them—and in particular the U.S.—of funding terrorism through support of the SDF.that the SDF had received"trucks full of weapons" from the Americans.
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