Erdogan: ‘USA Requests Turkish Troops’

He also said that 3,000 vehicles cross the border at Habur daily, most of them carrying medicine and food from Turkey for the Iraqis. Erdogan pointed to these two developments as proof that the Turkish government is in good shape and that relations with the US are improving. “Turkey is managing its strategic partnership with the USA. We did not lose our temper and suffer in the end,” said Erdogan.

Talks involving the USA’s European Forces Commander and the North Atlantic Treaty Organizaton’s (NATO) European Allied Forces Commander General James Jones and the USA’s Central Forces (CENTCOM) Commander General John Abizai in Ankara on Friday reportedly included discussion of sending between one and three brigades of Turkish troops to Iraq.

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