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Turkey Not Working on New Mandate for Military Action in Iraq: Minister

  • June, 12, 2014 - 18:07
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Turkey Not Working on New Mandate for Military Action in Iraq: Minister

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The Turkish government is not working on any new mandate to authorise a cross-border military operation into Iraq, where militants are holding 80 Turkish nationals hostage, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said on Thursday.

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"The issue of whether the existing mandate is sufficient (for a military operation) or a new mandate is required is among the issues being discussed. But right now there is no work being conducted for a new mandate," Bozdag told reporters in Ankara.

A parliamentary mandate allowing Turkey to conduct cross-border military operations in Iraq expires in October.

It was drafted to enable Ankara to strike at bases of Kurdish PKK militants in the north of the country, Reuters reported.

 

 
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