Ankara - The United States embassy in Ankara on Wednesday denied Washington had ever supported Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists in the Syrian conflict after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed the extremists had enjoyed US backing. "The United States government is not supporting Daesh," the embassy said in a terse statement, using another acronym for ISIS. The United States "did not create or support Daesh in the past. Assertions the United States government is supporting Daesh are not true", it added. The statement did not mention Erdogan by name, but said there was "considerable misinformation circulating in Turkish media" about US operations against ISIS in Syria. "For those interested in the truths, here are the truths," the embassy said. Erdogan had on Tuesday accused coalition forces led by the United States of supporting not just the Kurdish Peoples' Protection Units (YPG) in Syria, but also ISIS. "...