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Turkey’s military chief of staff is meeting his US and Russian counterparts in the southern Turkish province of Antalya to discuss regional security, notably in Syria and Iraq, the Turkish armed forces said today.
No further details were available of the meeting being hosted by General Hulusi Akar.
In August, Turkey-backed forces launched an operation to drive Daesh away from its border with Syria and prevent the Kurdish YPG militia taking territory in their wake.
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Since pushing the jihadists out of their Al-Bab stronghold, fighting has focused on villages west of Manbij, setting Turkish-backed rebels against the Manbij Military Council, part of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) that includes the YPG.
Turkey views the YPG as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which is waging an insurgency in Turkey.
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