A week ago, Turkish President Ragab Tayyip Erdogan threatened to launch an operation against Kurdish fighters in the "Kurdistan Workers' Party", which Ankara and its Western allies classify as terrorist.

Addressing members of his party's Justice and Development bloc in the Turkish Parliament, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that his country was moving to a new phase in its decision to establish a safe zone 30 kilometres north of Syria and to clear the Tall Rafah and Manbij areas of terrorists.

Erdogan added that those who try to legitimize the terrorist organization "PKK" (Kurdistan Workers Party) and its arms under various names are only deceiving themselves. "

He stated that "those who provide weapons to terrorists free of charge and refrain from selling it to Turkey deserve the title of a State of terrorism rather than a State of law", according to Anadolu.

The YPG, allied with the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which was supported by the United States and the Western Coalition against ISIL, is also targeted.

In a related context, the Turkish President pointed out that NATO was a security institution rather than its mission to support terrorist organizations.

On another level, Erdogan announced the disruption of the Council's high-level strategic agreement between Turkey and Greece.