Turkey's presidency said on Friday US President Barack Obama had expressed concern over the advance of Syrian government and Kurdish YPG forces in northwestern Syria in a telephone call with his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan.
With tensions running high between the two allies over the role of Syrian Kurdish fighters, the Turkish presidency said in a statement that Obama told Erdogan that Turkey had a right to self-defence, and that the United States would always back it as a NATO ally.
The Turkish presidency said Obama and Erdogan agreed to increase cooperation in the fight against what it called terrorist groups, including the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
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