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A senior aide to Turkish President Erdogan has stated that US forces in Syria could be accidentally hit by Turkish rockets alongside Kurdish militants, stating that Ankara won't hold back a strike against PKK militia just because US troops are present.

It doesnt matter whether they [US troops] are patrolling there. If those PKK [Kurdistan Workers' Party] terrorists continue their activities within Turkey...you know they are infiltrating from northern Syria [into Turkey]... Ilnur Cevik, a senior political adviser to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, told Turkish radio station CRI TURK on Wednesday.

...If they go a little further then our forces [wouldn't care whether] there are American armors there...suddenly you happen to see there are a few missiles [that] hit them accidentally too, he continued.

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Cevik's statements came after US troops were deployed to the Syrian border to prevent clashes between Turkish and Kurdish forces, after Turkish airstrikes hit two Kurdish-held areas in Syria and Iraq last month.

However, Cevik appeared to make a U-turn on Twitter on Wednesday, stating that Turkey has never and will never hit its allies anywhere and that includes the US in Syria.

He stated that Turkey will, however, hit all terrorists in Syria, adding that no one should allow our US allies to become a shield for them.

Cevik then posted a tweet which appeared to be referencing the US and its risk of alienating the Turkish people by cooperating with Ankara's enemies.

Both Turkey and the US have classified the PKK as a terrorist group. However, the two sides disagree on the classification of another Kurdish group, the People's Protection Units (YPG). Although Ankara considers the YPG to be terrorists, the US is cooperating alongside them in the fight against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).

The YPG, and you know whos supporting them, is attacking us with mortars. But we will make those places their grave, there is no stopping, Erdogan said last month, referencing Washington's support, as quoted by AP.

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Instead of working with Syrian Kurds, who the US believes are the most powerful force against IS in Syria, Turkey is pressing Washington to let its army join its campaign for Raqqa.

Let us, huge America, all these coalition powers and Turkey, let us join hands and turn Raqqa to Daeshs [IS] grave, Erdogan said last month.

Erdogan will travel to Washington later this month to meet with US President Trump on May 16. It will be the first meeting between the leaders of the two NATO countries.

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US troops could be 'accidentally' hit in strikes against Kurdish ... - RT