BBC: Syria conflict: Turkey says US plea on Kurds 'unacceptable'
Turkey's president has strongly rejected US calls for his country to protect Kurdish fighters in Syria.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said such statements made by US National Security Adviser John Bolton at the weekend were "unacceptable".
Mr Bolton is in Turkey to seek guarantees that Kurds fighting Islamic State (IS) in northern Syria will be safe after a planned US pullout.
Turkey regards the Kurdish YPG militia fighting IS militants as terrorists.
On Tuesday Mr Erdogan told MPs from his AK Party that Turkey could not "accept and swallow" Mr Bolton's message.
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WNU Editor: No surprises by President Erdogan's remarks. He has a long history of making it very clear that he prefers to wipe-out Kurdish fighters over ISIS fighters.
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