[QUOTE][B]Turkey's parliament has backed a motion allowing its military to enter Iraq and Syria to fight Islamic State (IS) militants.[/B][B]The resolution will also permit foreign troops to use Turkish territory for the operation.[/B]
The motion was passed with 298 MPs in favour and 98 against.
Turkey had been unwilling to fight IS militants because they were holding 46 Turkish hostages - but they were released last month.
Turkey is also wary of retaliation by IS and fears helping the Kurds who are fighting the militants.
Protesters demonstrated outside parliament as the debate began.
[B]The approval of parliament could also enable the US to use its large airbase at Incirlik in southern Turkey for air strikes.[/B]
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[URL]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29455204[/URL]
I hope this makes the people that initially tried to imply Turkey and ISIS working together think twice.
One of the captured Kurdish leaders reportedly said that if IS is allowed to capture a Kurdish town near the Syrian border, and stage a massacre there, then apparently the Peshmerga will call off peace talks with Turkey. IS have advanced recently to within a few kilometres of Korbane (the town).
Is that the cry of the Janissaries I hear from over the hills of Anatolia?
just close your damn boarder with syria and iraq and that'll help quite a bit
[QUOTE=Sableye;46134283]just close your damn boarder with syria and iraq and that'll help quite a bit[/QUOTE]
You do realise that the border is just a magical line on a map right. Its impossible to close it.
Finally an actual power in the region might start doing something.
Turkey is going to try and suppress the kurds.
[QUOTE=Jsm;46134654]You do realise that the border is just a magical line on a map right. Its impossible to close it.[/QUOTE]
[I]"No Habib, we cannot cross."
"Why not?"
"They closed it."[/I]
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