Turkey's president says his county "will not take a step back" from its offensive against Syrian Kurdish militants it sees as a national security threat, defying serious warnings from the United States and other Western nations. Speaking on Friday on the third day of the operation, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he had given ample time to U.S. President Donald Trump to stop supporting and arming the Kurdish fighters, which form the backbone of the Syrian Democratic Forces fighting the Islamic State group.
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