The Turkish parliament on Saturday approved a one-year extension of an existing mandate to use Turkish troops abroad in Syria and Iraq, two days before Iraq's Kurdish region holds a controversial independence referendum.
The bill was overwhelmingly passed. Defence Minister Nurettin Canikli said the extension was intended to protect Turkey from "threats", adding that the Kurdish Regional Government's planned vote on Monday was a "threat to national security".
source: AFP
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