In Spat Between Turks and Kurds, U.S. Remains on the Sidelines

Foreign Policy: Faced with a tortuous choice between a longtime NATO ally and a vital proxy in the fight against the Islamic State, the Obama administration is trying not to take sides at all.

Turkey called on the United States to drop its support for Kurdish YPG fighters in Syria after a suicide bombing in Ankara killed at least 28 people — an attack Turkey attributed to the YPG. But the State Department refused to single out the Kurds and vowed to continue supporting the group’s fighters on the battlefield against the Islamic State in Syria.

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