ANKARA - Turkey is working to ensure that Syria's transformation over the last month will not bring new instabilities to the region, President Tayyip Erdogan told the Iraqi Kurdish prime minister, Erdogan's office said on Tuesday.

Tensions in Syria have escalated dramatically as the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) successfully shot down a Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drone near the Qaraqozak Bridge in northern Raqqa. This incident marks the third Turkish drone downed by the SDF within a month,

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Monday that eradication of the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria was "imminent", and that Ankara would not agree to any policy that allowed the YPG to maintain a presence there.