Turkey sees the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the Kurdish militia that dominates the SDF, as an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which has been designated as a terrorist organization also by the United States and the European Union.

Virginia Gamba, the UN Secretary-General's special representative on children in armed conflicts, met with YPG commander Mazloum Abdi in Geneva last week and signed an agreement to end the recruitment of child soldiers.

Turkey called Abdi, also known as Ferhat Abdi Sahin, a “PKK terrorist” and accused UN officials of signing an action plan with the SDF without the knowledge of UN member countries.

Turkey's permanent mission to the UN office at Geneva also documented that Sahin was sought by Interpol with a red notice, Anadolu said.

The officials working at the office of Geir O. Pedersen, the UN's special envoy for Syria, told Turkish authorities that they had no idea about the deal signed with the SDF, Anadolu said.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday called the deal signed between the UN and the SDF a scandal, while answering the questions of journalists at the end of an official visit to China.

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