Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has accused the United States of funding the Islamic State terrorist group.
“We’re fighting against the Islamic State,” said Erdoğan. “But what did you [the US] do? You gave lots of dollars to the Islamic State.
“My soldiers heroically fought together with the Free Syrian Army, whereas America attempts to do its job through other organizations (the Syrian Kurds, the [Kurdish] PYD [the Democratic Union Party]); we have learned all that.”