Ankara denies accusations of providing arms to extremist groups in Syria.

Ankara denies accusations of providing arms to extremist groups in Syria.(HD).

Ankara has denied Sept. 18 claims that Turkey was handing weapons over to the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front as well as the jihadist Ahrar al-Sham groups.

“We do not lend any direct support to al-Nusra or any other groups. The only contact point for Turkey is the Syrian National Council,” Turkish diplomatic sources told the Hürriyet Daily News, recalling that Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu had several times stated this position of Turkey regarding the anti-regime groups in Syria.

The claims were brought up by the Syrian Kurdish leader Saleh Muslim in an interview with daily Taraf published on Sept. 18.

“Turkey is [employing] the gangs to make war against us. They give them mortars, they give them bullets. We have documented everything. And this is being done in broad daylight,” the leader of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), whose armed wing the People’s Defense Units (YPG) has been engaged in constant fighting with jihadist rebel groups in the northern parts of Syria (called Rojava by the Kurds) for weeks, told Taraf.

The same diplomatic sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, declined to give a direct response to Muslim’s accusations.

Muslim had visited Turkey twice in a brief period since the open conflict between Kurdish milita groups and jihadist rebels mounted, triggering a refugee outflow in Rojava, describing its contacts as “fruitful.”

However, the PYD leader accused Turkey of being “insincere” and not refraining from supporting the rebels groups, despite having launched talks with Syrian Kurds.

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Hmmm.......leader of the terrorist al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front has held secret talks with a group of Western military officials in Jordan, informed sources say.
The sources said al-Nusra Front leader Abu-Mohammad al-Jolani met with senior military and intelligence officials from the United States, Britain, France and Jordan in Amman on September 10.
US and Saudi officials also urged al-Nusra Front leader to cooperate with the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA) and end infightings. Jolani accepted the request and promised to set up a joint operation room with FSA against the Syrian army.
Saudi Arabia also guaranteed to continue its financial and logistic support for al-Nusra Front.