FILE PHOTO: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu attends a NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels, Belgium, November 20, 2019. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey will block final publication of a NATO defence plan for the Baltics and Poland until allies agree to designate the Syrian Kurdish YPG a terrorist group, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday.
Two days after a NATO summit at which alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg announced that Turkey had withdrawn its objection, allowing plans to move forward, Cavusoglu said Ankara agreed to the next step in the process but had not given final approval.
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