The United States received a notice from Turkey an hour before operation in Syria and Iraq
According to the source channel, the U.S. advisors and the international coalition were not near the areas of operation.
“These strikes were not approved by the coalition to combat ISIS* and led to losses among the forces who are our partners in the fight against ISIS, including Kurdish forces “Peshmerga,” said Pentagon spokesman Adrian Rankin-Galloway.
The General staff of the Turkish armed forces announced on Tuesday the death toll at about 70 members of the Kurdish forces during air strikes on positions of self-defense forces of the Kurds in the northeast of Syria and the country banned the Kurdistan workers ‘ party (PKK) in Northern Iraq.
Ankara considers YPG a terrorist organization affiliated with the PKK. In this regard, Turkey has repeatedly criticized the United States for arms supplies to Syrian Kurds, which Washington considers its allies in the fight against the terrorist group ISIS*.
After the resumption in Turkey in July 2015 the armed conflict with the PKK in attacks by Kurdish rebels killed about 900 military and police officers and over 300 civilians. According to the Ministry of defence of Turkey, during this period, security forces neutralized more than 10 thousand members of the PKK.