The United States is the enemy of Turkey and the greatest threat to the country’s security, pro-government columnist Ibrahim Karagül said.

“It is an enemy country,” he said in the Yeni Şafak newspaper. “It is a serious threat to our country’s existence, its unity, integrity, present and the future. It is carrying out an open attack, and an undeclared war against Turkey.”

Turkey has embarked on a new war of independence, similar to the battles Atatürk fought almost a century ago, in response to a “Turkey front” that the United States has established over the southern border in Syria, Karagül claimed. Washington is supplying thousands of truckloads of weapons to Kurdish terrorists to help achieve its aim, he said.