The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) has not completely withdrawn from the north Syrian town of Manbij, said Turkey’s Foreign Ministry on Monday. Turkey and the United States reached a deal last month over the town after months of disagreement. Under the deal, the YPG would withdraw from Manbij and Turkish and US forces would maintain security and stability around the town. On Sunday, the armed group controlling Manbij said the last YPG fighters had left after completing their mission of military training of local forces. The Manbij Military Council has repeatedly said their were no YPG fighters there, only some YPG military advisers. Ankara, however, said those reports are "exaggerated". The foreign ministry stated the YPG is still pulling out of areas where Turkish and US forces have been conducting separate patrols. “Withdrawal from the checkpoints on the patrol route is ongoing. Joint patrol preparations are continuing. Therefore, at this stage, reports that PYD/YPG have completely withdrawn from Manbij do not reflect the truth,” a source at the foreign ministry said. The PYD is the political arm of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, which is backed by the United States in the fight against ISIS. That support has infuriated Ankara, which sees the YPG as an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The PKK, considered a terrorist group by the United States, the European Union and Turkey, has waged a three-decade insurgency in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast.