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İstanbul, Mar 23 (DHA) – Turkey has summoned the Russian chargé d’affairs to the Foreign Ministry to express Ankara’s reaction after the killing of a Turkish soldier by Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD) elements on the Syrian border.
Ankara recalled that it was also Russia’s responsibility to monitor violations of the ceasefire in Syria, urging that it will retaliate in kind in the event that such attacks continue.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hüseyin Müftüoğlu also reportedly expressed Turkey’s unease at Russian generals’ photographed wearing symbols of the PYD’s armed wing, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), on their uniform.