ISTANBUL — Allies of the United States sharply criticized the Obama administration’s Syria policy on Wednesday, when the outgoing foreign minister of France called it “ambiguous” and the president of Turkey said American inaction had allowed the region to descend into a blood bath.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey called into question the American commitment to fighting terrorist groups in Syria and cited the Washington’s failure to recognize a Syrian Kurdish rebel group as a terrorist organization.