“A country we call an ally is insisting on forming a terror army on our borders,” Mr Erdogan said of the United States in a speech in Ankara. “What can that terror army target but Turkey?”
On Sunday, the US-led coalition said it was working with its Syrian militia allies, the mainly Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), to set up the new border force, whose numbers would be expected to reach 30,000 over a number of years.
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