“Turkey is building a safe zone for terrorists removed from all over Syria,” Muslim said on his official Twitter account referring to Islamic State (IS), al-Nusra and al-Qaeda.

According to NRT he added Turkey has an intention to use the ultra-hardline militant groups against Middle East and European Union.

In January, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered an assault along with allied Syrian rebels against the Kurdish town of Afrin in northern Syria against the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) there.

Washington has previously expressed concern about Turkey's decision to plunge itself more deeply into Syria's civil war with an offensive against Kurdish-held border areas.

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