Washington will be invited to join the Syria talks due to be held this month in Astana, but we will not accept PYD/YPG presence at the talks, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Saturday.

Axar.az reports that, speaking at a press conference held on the sidelines of the 8th Ambassadors Conference in Ankara, Çavuşoğlu said that the U.S. might as well invite the ISIS terrorist group too if the PYD terrorist group joins the peace talks in the Kazakh capital.

The Assad regime and the moderate opposition will be expected to meet for talks for the first time in nearly a year in the Kazakh capital of Astana in the second half of January. Those talks will be mediated by Turkey, Russia and Iran.