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Turkey won't send troops to Afghanistan
 (KUNA) -- Turkey's army chief of staff General Yasar Buyukanit said Friday that his country would not send troops to Afghanistan in response to North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) call for reinforcements there. General Buyukanit said "not a single soldier from the Turkish armed forces will go to Afghanistan for the fight against terrorism," adding that "there is no need for such a thing." However he added that Turkey had spent a lot of effort in bringing peace and stability in different parts of the world under the NATO command.Turkey has already taken charge of peace troops in Afghanistan twice, and there are still Turkish forces stationed in Kabul, he indicated. Last Thursday NATO's military commander US General James Jones called on allied countries to increase the size of their military presence in the face of what he described as increased violence by the former ruling Taliban. Posted by: Fred 2006-09-09 |
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