Only Syrians have been invited to peace talks in Geneva, the UN said Wednesday, in an apparent contradiction to Turkey's suggestion that it would be included.
On Tuesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Ankara would "boycott" the talks set to open on Friday if the Syrian Kurdish group
Democratic Union Party (PYD), which Ankara believes is linked to militants fighting inside Turkey, was at the negotiating table.
But AFP reports that Khawla Mattar, a spokeswoman for the UN's Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said there was "no plan to invite" non-Syrians when asked about the possible inclusion of observer delegations from Turkey, Russia, the United States or France.
She declined to comment on which parties had been given invitations, which were issued by de Mistura on Tuesday.