Erdogan then said Turkey “strongly condemns” a bipartisan bill to sanction senior Turkish officials and its army for Turkey’s military incursion into northeastern Syria, which passed 403-16. The second bill sanctioning Turkey shows the bipartisan disapproval of Trump’s decision and condemns Turkey’s offensive. The Syrian Kurdish forces are linked to the group and follow the same ideological leader, Abdullah Ocalan, who is imprisoned in Turkey. ADTurkey’s foreign ministry criticized American lawmakers, saying it would be wrong for them to take their “vengeance”for Turkey’s Syria offensive through the Armenian genocide bill. AD“Undoubtedly, this resolution will negatively affect the image of the U.S. before the public opinion of Turkey,” the ministry said.

Source: Washington Post October 30, 2019 08:20 UTC