DAMASCUS (Sputnik) – On Sunday, the Syrian Foreign Ministry sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council strongly condemning strikes carried out by Turkey on Syrian territory and called the strikes direct support of terrorists.
“I met with the head chairing the Security Council this month, with the Venezuelan ambassador, and requested attention be given to Turkish aggression on Syrian territory and to hold consultations with the UN Security Council members on this issue in order to stop it and to place responsibility for what is happening on Turkey. This is said in both letters,” Jaafari said by telephone.
He confirmed to Sputnik in an interview that Russia has demanded a discussion in the UN Security Council later on Tuesday on Turkey’s shelling of Kurdish forces in Syria.
On Saturday, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Turkish forces shelled Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) positions in northern Syria as a retaliatory measure within rules of engagement. The attacks continued on Sunday.
"On Tuesday, there will be a discussion among the members of the Security Council on Turkish aggression on Syrian territory. [Our] Russian friends demanded to include this issue in the meeting's agenda after the discussion of the situation in Yemen," Jaafari said by telephone.
YPG is the military wing of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD). Ankara considers the group to be an affiliate of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), an outlawed organization seeking Kurdish independence that has fought the Turkish state since 1984.
