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The Turkish government must continue to send to the fight against terrorist organizations such as the IS-militiamen to Syria and Iraq. The parliament in Ankara on Thursday evening passed a mandate for such missions in neighboring countries. The Government of the NATO Partners has been a year long free hand to proceed there with ground troops or other military means against terrorist organizations.
It is still unclear, however, whether – and if so, when – the government makes use of the option. Before the vote, said Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz, according to the Anatolia news agency: “You can count one step directly after the adoption of the permit.”
The terrorist militia Islamic State (IS) now dominates vast tracts of land in Syria and Iraq. The extremists are in several places in Syria already at the limit of the NATO-country.
298 Turkish MPs voted for the resolution, 98 voted against it. The largest opposition party, the Social Democratic CHP, and the smaller pro-Kurdish party HDP had announced not to accept the mandate. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu of the Islamic-conservative AKP had said before the vote: “Today is a test for the CHP and the HDP. We’ll see who is for or against IS. “
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The AKP government is the mandate allows, over time, the duration and extent of military operations in the neighboring countries to decide how Anadolu reported. The government would also be empowered to decide on the presence of foreign troops in Turkey. The resolution allow not only the fight against IS, but also to other groups such as the banned Kurdish Workers’ Party PKK.
The government in Ankara had long promised only humanitarian aid in international action against the IS. Last week President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was no longer ruled out a military support. Erdogan does not keep the fight against IS alone is sufficient.
The Government criticized the regime of dictator Bashar al-Assad in Syria would contribute to the strengthening of terrorist groups in the region. “That’s why Syria is a serious threat to the region and to international peace and security has become,” it said in the preamble to the government for the resolution. Erdogan calls for a long time that Assad must step down
In the Syrian border town Kobane. (Arabic: Ain Al-Arab) fight Kurdish people protection units currently against the advancing terrorists. Erdogan has called for the creation of a militarily protected buffer zone in Syria. Kurdish organizations suspect the Turkish government to want to occupy Kurdish areas under the pretext of such a zone.
PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan warned in case of a massacre by the terrorist militia IS in Kobane of a renewed flare-up of the armed conflict with the Turkish government. A massacre in Kobane will end the peace process with Ankara, Ocalan said according to a statement published by the pro-Kurdish HDP.
The Turkish army said its stationed in Syria in a mausoleum soldiers in the event of an attack of terrorist militia IS to immediate military support. “Trust it, just a word from you and the Turkish military will immediately be at your side,” it said on Thursday in an open letter from chief of staff Necat Özel to the soldiers in Syria.
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