ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey summoned the U.S. ambassador to express its displeasure on Tuesday after a State Department spokesman said Washington did not regard Syria's Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) as a terrorist organisation, a Turkish foreign ministry official said.
Tensions between the two NATO allies have flared over the PYD, which Washington supports in its struggle against Islamic State militants in Syria.
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