US President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended his decision to pull troops from northern Syria, thus permitting Turkey freedom of action against the Kurds in the area.
At the same time, Trump in a series of tweets also stressed that the US is not abandoning the Kurdish population in northern Syria, which Turkey views as a terrorist organization which is aligned with the PKK movement which has been outlawed by Ankara.
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