ISTANBUL, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Turkey has made some U.S. special operations forces leave northern Syria as the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) does not want American interference, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday.
"The Free Syrian Army does not want interference from the U.S., because the behavior of U.S. officials heightened the problem to that level," the president told the press in Istanbul prior to his departure for New York for the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly.
"Our officials, our special forces have taken out around 27 U.S. special forces from the area," he added.
Washington announced last Friday the deployment of some three dozen special operations forces in northern Syria to work with Turkish troops in fighting the Islamic State (IS).
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