Turkey escalates involvement in Iraq-Syria war
By Halil Celik
17 March 2015
Turkey’s Defence Minister Ismet Yilmaz accompanied foreign ministry and army officials to Iraq earlier this month to sign bilateral agreements with the Iraqi government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Irbil. His stated purpose was to share “intelligence information as part of efforts in the fight against the ISIS [Islamic State in Syria] threat.”
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