„What we discussed today are options that are available to us. They are difficult options. Let me be very frank, it‘s not easy, they are difficult choices that have to be made,“ Tillerson told a joint news conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.

Cavusoglu said the U.S. government accepted that there was no difference between the YPG militia and the PKK. Tillerson condemned recent PKK attacks in Turkey but made no such acknowledgement.