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Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Erdogan says Turkey killed 3,000 IS extremists
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleTurkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkish forces have killed some 3,000 Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, insisting that no other country has matched Turkey’s efforts against the extremist group.
In an address to the military chiefs of Balkan nations, Erdogan also denounces nations who have accused Turkey of supporting IS as “vile.”
“There have been those who have … been vile by showing Turkey as a country that helps Daesh (Islamic State). No country in the world has conducted the struggle we are conducting,” Erdogan says.
The presidents figures contradict those of the Turkish military chief, who earlier in the same meeting puts the number of IS militants killed in Syria and Iraq at 1,300. Erdogan’s aides cannot immediately be reached to explain the differing figures.
— AP
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