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Turkey Interrupts U.S. Air Missions Against ISIS at Major Base

  • July 16, 2016
  • Eric Schmitt And Dan Bilefsky
  • New York Times

“They’re going to be focused on rooting out coup plotters, and that’s going to preoccupy all the national security services; and everything else, including going after ISIL, will be secondary,” said Eric S. Edelman, a former United States ambassador to Turkey and top Pentagon official under President George W. Bush. “It may affect their ability to protect themselves from ISIL blowback in Turkey.”

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