ANKARA (Sputnik) — In the past months, Turkey also intensified the shelling of Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) positions in northern Syria, arguing that the Kurdish militia is a terrorist group that threatens Turkish security.
"Who will guarantee us, if we militarily intervene, that Arab countries will be defending and supporting this?" Davutoglu asked during his interview with Qatar’s state broadcaster Al Jazeera.
Ankara’s decision to send troops to Iraq last December, allegedly to liberate the Iraqi city of Mosul from Islamist militants, prompted an angry response from the 22-nation Arab League and Iraqi authorities.
Iraq's Prime Minister Haider Abadi stressed that no foreign troops should be allowed in the country without the consent of its government.
