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Erdogan spokesman slams U.S. military for backing Syrian Kurdish militia

EghtesadOnline: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman lashed out at the U.S. military on Thursday after it re-tweeted a statement by a Kurdish-dominated alliance it backs in Syria saying it had no links to Kurdish militants fighting the Turkish state.
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Publish Date:12/January/2017 | 09:53

Turkish air strikes hit 12 targets in north Iraq: military

EghtesadOnline: Turkish warplanes destroyed 12 targets in northern Iraq late on Monday, the military said, striking a region where Ankara says the leadership of Turkey's outlawed Kurdish militant group PKK is based.
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Publish Date:06/September/2016 | 06:32

Turkey pushes west in offensive against Islamic State in Syria

EghtesadOnline: Turkey renewed air strikes on Islamic State sites in Syria on Friday, extending operations along a 90-km (56-mile) corridor near the Turkish border which Ankara says it is clearing of jihadists and protecting from Kurdish militia expansion.
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Publish Date:03/September/2016 | 10:40

U.S. lauds fragile respite between Turkey, Kurdish fighters in Syria

EghtesadOnline: The United States welcomed an apparent pause in fighting between Turkish-backed forces and Kurdish militia fighters in Syria on Tuesday, both of them members of the coalition fighting Islamic State, but it was far from clear that any truce would hold.
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Publish Date:31/August/2016 | 07:11

U.S. tries to stop feuding allies from unraveling Syria strategy

EghtesadOnline: The United States scrambled on Monday to get its feuding allies, Turkey and Kurdish YPG militia, to focus their firepower on Islamic State instead of each other after clashes that have threatened to unravel America's war strategy in Syria.
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Publish Date:30/August/2016 | 06:33