"No one has a right to criticize Turkey and ignore the sacrifices our beloved nation had to make," Davutoglu said in a televised speech among supporters in Istanbul on Sunday.
The Turkish premier made the comments in response to earlier remarks by US Vice President
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, who accused Turkey of financing and arming terrorists, for which he later apologized.
"It is impossible for us to accept this criticism," Davutoglu said, adding, "If all the warnings that Turkey made had been heeded, these things would not have happened. It is our duty to point this out, no matter who we are dealing with."
Biden called the allies in the region Washington's "largest problem" in dealing with the situation in Syria, referring to Turkey, Soddy Arabia
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, and the UAE, which the US "could not convince" to stop arming the ISIL Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
terrorists.
Turkish politicians authorized military operations against ISIL snuffies in Syria and Iraq on Thursday.