ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has not allowed and will not allow the Syrian Kurdish PYD, which is fighting Islamic State but has links to the outlawed PKK militant group in Turkey, to cross west of Euphrates river, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday.
Speaking to reporters in Istanbul, Erdogan dismissed suggestions that fighters from the Kurdish militia had already crossed the river.
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