WAAR-DUHOK:

“Manbij is not a place for the PYD or YPG … it belongs to Arabs,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters on Tuesday at Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul before departing for an economic summit in Pakistan.

Manbij, located in Rojava (western Kurdistan) is Kurd and Arab populated city on the western bank of the Euphrates River, is currently controlled by the Kurdish-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).