"I think it will later turn out to be false," Ali said, commenting on Cavusoglu's statement.
Ali pointed out that Turkey had made many statements about the situation in Syria which subsequently turned out to be incorrect – for example, the Turkish authorities said that the United States was going to supply them with tanks, which never materialized.
"Americans are not kids. They know very well who is shelled by Turkey and who is not. The Islamic State, as well as Al-Nusra Front [both outlawed in Russia] are Turkish creations, their trumps in Syria. Will Turkey bomb its creations? At the same time, Turkey is known to have shelled the Kurds near the cities of Afrin and Kobani," the Kurdish official said.
In February, Brett McGurk, special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter IS, visited Syrian Kurdistan including the city of Kobani, which sparked outrage from Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan, who went as far as to say the United States must choose between Turkey and the Kurds.
Violence broke out between Turkey and the Kurds last summer after a number of attacks against Turkish police and military personnel, for which Turkey blamed the Kurdish Workers' Party (the PKK). Turkey is also actively shelling territories controlled by Iraqi and Syrian Kurds, as it views both groups as allies of the PKK.
