Turkey's military commanders recalled to discuss possible Syria intervention -

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Meeting comes in spite of Prime Minister's assertion that no intervention is planned

MEE staff

Last update:
Monday 6 July 2015 11:00 UTC

The Turkish army has summoned a meeting of its top commanders to discuss intervention in northern Syria, a Turkish daily has reported.

According to the Hurriyet newspaper, on Saturday the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) recalled to Ankara the commanders of its troops stationed along the Syrian border, where over 54,000 soldiers – around 15 percent of the total land forces – have been deployed.

The meeting is set to discuss the details of a possible intervention, the deployment of 400 armoured vehicles, which would carry military personnel and be protected by jammers against mines laid by the Islamic State group and the role of the Turkish airforce.

Turkey has floated the idea of creating a “safe zone” of 60km in northern Syria in order to counter the various threats that have emerged in the region.

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1. I'm sure this is 100% about the Kurds and has nothing to do with ISIS.

Turkey had no problem when ISIS was on their border. They probably want to keep the stream of European terrorists flowing.