Fuming Erdogan summons US envoy over response to hostage killings
Turkish president accuses the US of ‘siding with terrorists’
Ankara — Turkey accused the US of questioning its account of the execution of Turkish citizens by Kurdish militants and summoned the US ambassador to convey its protest, as it presses Washington to cut off support for a related armed group in Syria.
On Sunday, Turkey reported that separatist militants from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, executed 13 Turkish hostages held in a cave in northern Iraq. The US state department tweeted in response that “if reports of the death of Turkish civilians at the hands of the PKK, a designated terrorist organisation, are confirmed, we condemn this action in the strongest possible terms”...
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