US, Turkish defense chiefs meet to discuss anti-ISIS operations

  16 December 2016    Read: 995
US, Turkish defense chiefs meet to discuss anti-ISIS operations
US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter met with Turkey’s Defense Minister Fikri Isik on Thursday at the site of a London conference on countering Daesh terror group, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said in a statement, Sputnik reports.
Carter thanked Isik for Turkish contributions to the anti-Daesh campaign, particularly Ankara’s Operation Euphrates Shield in northern Syria and efforts to close borders to the group, Cook stated.

The defense chiefs reaffirmed their nations’ resolve to defeat Daesh and discussed a variety of ways to jointly accelerate the fight, according to Cook. In addition, Carter condemned last Saturday’s attack in Turkey by members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) that killed more than 40 people and wounded at least 150 others. Turkey’s government considers the PKK a terrorist organization.

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