Turkey willing to join battle for Syria’s Raqqah, says Erdogan

‘Turkey’s president has claimed that Ankara is willing to join a battle for the liberation of the Syrian city of Raqqah from the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.
“Turkey wants to join … in a military operation to push IS [an alternative name for Daesh] from its Syrian stronghold of Raqqah, as long as it excludes Kurdish rebel forces,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quoted by private broadcaster NTV as saying on Sunday.
Erdogan said, “Our foreign minister and military authorities are in talks with the United States discussing the matter of Raqqah.”‘
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