The United States has made it clear to Turkey, publicly and privately, that it strongly opposes military action, including a potential land incursion in northern Syria, the State Department spokesman Ned Price said.

“When it comes to Turkey and potential escalation along the border and potentially across the border into Syria, we spoke about this at length yesterday. We’ve spoken about this at length over the past two weeks. Our point on this has not changed,” Ned Price said.

“We continue to make clear both privately and publicly that we strongly oppose military action, including a land incursion, that would further destabilize the lives of communities across Syria and risk the hard-earned gains that the global coalition to confront ISIS has achieved in recent years. We think that all parties should immediately de-escalate,” Price stated.

Price also noted that Washington does not want to see escalation along the border or inside Syria, in Northeastern Syria.

“It would be not only an – it would put not only the hard-won gains of the counter-ISIS coalition at risk, but it has the potential to put our own personnel – U.S. personnel – at risk,” he added. (ILKHA)