ISTANBUL, July 26 (Reuters) - The head of a Syrian Kurdish group with links to militants in Turkey met officials from Turkey's intelligence agency in Istanbul on Friday, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said.
Saleh Muslim, head of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), whose militias have seized control of districts in northern Syria near the Turkish border over the past year, met with members of the National Intelligence Agency, Erdogan told reporters.
(Reporting by Seda Sezer and Humeyra Pamuk; Writing by Nick Tattersall; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
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