Turkey warns U.S. to end support for Syrian Kurds

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan saidSunday his country may take further action against Kurdish militantsin Iraq and Syria and insisted U.S. support for such groups "mustcome to an end."

The U.S. moved troops and armoured vehicles through severalSyrian cities and towns on Friday and Saturday in a show of forceapparently intended to dissuade Turkey and Syrian Kurdish forcesfrom attacking each other.

Kurdish officials described the U.S. troop movement as a"buffer" between them and Turkey.

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The U.S. has provided air cover and other support to Kurdishforces battling ISIS. In Syria,it is working with the Syrian Democratic Forces, which is dominatedby the Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, but also includesArab fighters.

Video from northern Syria shows the U.S. patrols parked alongsideKurdish units flying the YPG flag.

Turkey views the YPG as a terrorist organization and an extensionof the Kurdish militants who have been waging a three-decade-longinsurgency. It launched airstrikes against the YPG last week,killing 20 fighters and media activists.

We will be forced to continue [our offensives]," Erdogan said."We won't provide a date and time for when we'll come. But theywill know that the Turkish military can come."

Erdogan said he would discuss the issue at a meeting with U.S.President Donald Trump next month.