TURKISH President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashed out at friends and enemies alike yesterday after his plans to invade Syria unravelled.

He angrily rejected calls by the UN security council for Turkey to halt its shelling of Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia, saying Ankara “has no such plans.”

Fighting between the YPG and al-Qaida-affiliated Nusra Front and allied Ahrar ash-Sham continued as the Kurds consolidated their grip on the shrinking Azaz corridor.

And Mr Erdogan hit out at the US for failing to support his scheme of a six-mile “safe zone” for those terrorist groups south of the border with Turkey.

“Oh America! You did not say Yes to a no-fly zone,” he lamented.

“Now the Russian planes are running wild over there, and thousands and tens of thousands of victims are dying. Weren’t we coalition forces? Weren’t we to act together?”

German Chancellor Angela Merkel earlier withdrew her support for the move after Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov warned that it would need the consent of both the Syrian government and the UN security council.

Ms Merkel later refloated her proposal on the unlikely proviso that it could be agreed between Syria and its allies Russia and Iran on the one hand and the US, Turkey and Saudi Arabia on the other.

On Tuesday US President Barack Obama renewed his calls for the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. He claimed that Russia’s decisive intervention in the conflict was only “a testament to the weakness of Assad’s position.”

But the Syrian army continued to push on, attacking Islamic State forces occupying the vital Aleppo thermal power plant east of the city.

And troops backed by Palestinian Liberation Army fighters broke the Army of Islam’s grip on a stretch of the M5 motorway to Homs north of Douma near Damascus.

In north Latakia province soldiers reportedly reached the outskirts of Kinsibba, the last town held by Turkmen militias — including fascist Grey Wolves militants from Turkey.