Turkey seeks to extend mandate for Iraq, Syria incursions: official
Turkey's government is seeking to extend for one more year a parliamentary mandate that allows the military to combat Islamist jihadists and Kurdish militants in neighbouring Syria and Iraq, a foreign ministry official said on Friday. The current mandate under which the Turkish armed forces launched airstrikes in Iraq and Syria expires on October 2, the […]Turkey's government is seeking to extend for one more year a parliamentary mandate that allows the military to combat Islamist jihadists and Kurdish militants in neighbouring Syria and Iraq, a foreign ministry official said on Friday. The current mandate under which the Turkish armed forces launched airstrikes in Iraq and Syria expires on October 2, the official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
"The process to extend it has started," the official said, adding that the document was sent to the parliament speaker's office, having been signed by the cabinet.
