ANKARA
Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz has denied allegations that Turkey provides electricity to the Daesh-controlled Syrian town of Tal Abyad in a release Monday.
A local media outlet report claimed that Dicle Electricity Distribution Company has supplied electricity to Tal Abyad from Turkey's border province Sanliurfa, based on a statement from an anonymous company worker.
"The news regarding electricity allegedly provided from Sanliurfa to Tal Abyad on some national and international media outlets do not reflect the truth," said Yildiz in a written statement to Anadolu Agency.
Yildiz accused media that still continued to report on the issue despite the company's denial of being malicious.
Fighting between Kurdish forces and Daesh has escalated in the last week with the help of U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, which led thousands of people to flee the region to seek refuge in Turkey.
Some 15,000 thousand of refugees crossed Turkey's Akcakale Border, officials told Anadolu Agency last Friday.
