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Turkey warns France ‘no benefit’ in retaining troops in Syria

ANKARA: France will not gain in any way by retaining forces to protect a Kurdish militia in Syria, Turkey’s foreign minister said on Tuesday, after Paris announced it would maintain a presence despite Washington’s pull-out announcement.

“There will be no benefit to anyone if France stays in Syria to protect” the People’s
Protection Units (YPG) militia, Mevlut Cavusoglu was quoted as saying by state news agency Anadolu.

Ankara views the US-backed YPG as a “terrorist offshoot” of Kurdish insurgents inside Turkey.

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.