ANKARA (Sputnik) — Turkey's pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) condemned the Turkish Armed Forces' ongoing military operation in northern Syria and urged the country's authorities to stop meddling in Syrian affairs, the party said in a statement on Thursday.
"Turkey should not meddle in Syrian affairs by military means," the statement reads, going on to stress that Ankara should "abandon its anti-Kurdish stance in Syria."
According to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the operation in Jarablus is aimed at neutralizing the threats posed by both Daesh and Kurdish militants in Syria, which Ankara considers to be linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is classified as a terrorists organization in Turkey.
The Syrian Kurds and Damascus accused Ankara of violating the territorial integrity of the Arab republic.
