Aaron Stein & Michelle Foley https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/aaron-stein-michelle-foley/rss en Government & Pro-Government Forces Religious & Ethnic Groups Wed, 27 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Aaron Stein & Michelle Foley https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2016/01/27/ypg-pkk-connection-spells-u-s-turkey-friction https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2016/01/27/ypg-pkk-connection-spells-u-s-turkey-friction Shared overarching political goals between the main Syrian Kurdish militia, the YPG, and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey have Ankara uneasy and point to what looks to be increasingly inevitable friction between the U.S. and Turkey in Syria.