President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan considers that establishing a Military Force, formed of members of two terrorist organizations (the YPG and Daesh) under US command, based at the Turkish border, can only mean one thing: a plan to invade Turkey. Accordingly he has denounced it as the US preparing for a regime change.

Following a meeting at the White House with the Emir of Quatar, Sheikh Tamin bin Hamad Al Thani, the Turkish President transformed a simple inauguration on 15 January 2018 at Ankara into an anti-US meeting.