Turkish Armed Forces have begun deploying tanks and other armored vehicles from the Ankara-based 28th Mechanized Infantry Brigade to Silopi in Şırnak near the border with Iraq, Anadolu Agency reported Nov. 1, three days after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said the country would reinforce its troops along its border.
“We have to be ready for any possibility,” Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Işık said on Nov. 1, recalling the fight against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and “significant developments on the other side of the Turkish border.”
The deployment is designed to be ready for these developments, he stated.
Turkey will reinforce its troop deployments in the border town of Silopi amid a possible Shiite offensive to liberate Tal Afar, which has a sizeable ethnic Turkmen population and is considered a sensitive target for Ankara, Erdoğan had said.
“If al-Hashd al-Shaabi [Shiite militia] causes terror there in [Tal Afar], our response to it will be different,” Erdoğan said Oct. 29.
[hurriyetdailynews.com]
1/11/16
“We have to be ready for any possibility,” Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Işık said on Nov. 1, recalling the fight against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and “significant developments on the other side of the Turkish border.”
The deployment is designed to be ready for these developments, he stated.
Turkey will reinforce its troop deployments in the border town of Silopi amid a possible Shiite offensive to liberate Tal Afar, which has a sizeable ethnic Turkmen population and is considered a sensitive target for Ankara, Erdoğan had said.
“If al-Hashd al-Shaabi [Shiite militia] causes terror there in [Tal Afar], our response to it will be different,” Erdoğan said Oct. 29.
[hurriyetdailynews.com]
1/11/16
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