Story highlights U.S., France urge Turkey to stop shelling Kurdish forces in northern Syria

Syria calls on the U.N. Security Council to intervene

(CNN) Turkey's defense minister said his country has no intention of sending ground troops into Syria amid international concern over Ankara's shelling of armed Kurdish groups in the war-torn country.

Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz made the comments Sunday in Turkey's semiofficial Anadolu news agency.

Turkey bombarded positions of the Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, in the town of Azaz in the north of Syria's Aleppo governorate over the weekend. It said it was a response to shelling from YPG positions.

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Turkey considers the YPG a terrorist group while the United States backs it in the fight against ISIS.

The U.S. and France called on Ankara to halt the shelling, which killed two Kurdish fighters and wounded seven others, according to the London-based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

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