We have established working groups for that,” Çavuşoğlu said in an interview with the German weekly Die Zeit on March. 9. The Turkish foreign minister said he would meet with his U.S. counterpart Rex Tillerson on March 19 to discuss further details.

“We hope the U.S. stops giving support to terror organizations” he said, referring to the Syrian Kurdish People‘s Protection Units (YPG). “These [militants] have control of 25 percent of the country [Syria] but the majority of the people that live in the cities are Arabs.