Turkey renews parliament vote on military operations in Syria and Iraq
Turkey’s state-run news agency
says parliament has extended by another year a motion allowing cross-border
military operations into Syria and Iraq against Kurdish militants and the
Islamic State group.
The resolution, first passed in 2014, was renewed on Saturday, the
first and only item on the parliament’s agenda on the first day of the new
legislative year. The state-run Anadolu Agency says it will remain in force
until October 30, 2017.
The pro-Kurdish People’s Democracy Party voted against the bill,
while the other three parties in parliament approved it.
Turkey sent troops and tanks into Syria in August to help Syrian
opposition rebels re-take Islamic State group strongholds near the border and
curb the advance of Syrian Kurdish militia, which are affiliated with Turkey’s
outlawed Kurdish rebels.
- 03 October 2016
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