Turkey won’t seek permission to fight terror: Erdogan

By Sena Guler and Sibel Ugurlu

ANKARA (AA) - Turkey will not seek anybody's permission to fight terrorism, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday.

“We reserve our right to target terrorists who threaten our country from Syrian territories, Erdogan said in an article penned for Russian daily Kommersant.

In the article on Turkey-Russia cooperation in Syria, he stressed that Turkey had no problem with Syrian Kurds nor any other groups living inside the borders of the neighboring country.

"[The US] Will devastate Turkey economically if they hit Kurds," Trump tweeted on Sunday, conflating “Kurds” with the terrorist PKK/YPG, a confusion that Turkey has repeatedly criticized.

"Baseless allegations from the U.S. doesn’t reflect the reality, but the point of view of certain interest groups," Erdogan added.

“The crisis in Syria can only be solved by countries which will benefit from healing Syria’s wounds and will suffer from the deepening of them,” he added.