Hollande: Turkey needs to ramp up ISIL fight, talk to Kurds

It said regime forces kept up airstrikes against ISIS to stave off the militants, as the extremist group stepped up offensives against both government forces and other insurgents in northern Syria.

Earlier the prime minister said a decision will be made in “the next week or so” following a request from the United States to consider expanding Australian air strikes from Iraq to Syria in the fight against Islamic State, or Daesh.

Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters Tuesday that Turkish and U.S. military officials have sealed an agreement on technical details and procedures.

Detailed talks between Washington and Ankara on the plans were completed and regional allies including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan as well as Britain and France may also take part, Cavusoglu said in an interview.

Diplomats say cutting Islamic State’s access to the Turkish border, across which it has been able to bring foreign fighters and supplies, could be a game-changer.

Ankara and Washington’s recent deal on cooperation against the terrorist Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria and Iraq and granting the US expanded access to İncirlik Air Base may have an effect on Turkey’s military procurement programs and lead to purchases from US manufacturers, according to a report.

“We expect that the numbers will continue to increase, probably not as dramatically as we experienced previous year , but ISIL, Syria and Iraq and this battlefield are still attractive for young people from Germany who want to become jihadists”, Maassen told the Reuters news agency.

24 that the air campaign will target ISIL in a zone in northern Syria bordering Turkey.

In Aziz the group tried to contact the British consulate in Turkey via a third party to alert them to Begum’s wishes, “However, we heard nothing back from them”, the source said.

He said authorities are now investigating 800 individuals on allegations of illegally travelling to the region to fight.