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Turkey, US can turn Raqqa into 'graveyard' for IS: Erdogan
Turkish president says the militant group would 'look for a place for themselves to hide' if US linked with Turkey
AFP Saturday 29 April 2017 10:07 UTC
Turkey and the United States can join forces to turn the Islamic State group's de facto capital of Raqqa in Syria into a "graveyard" for the militants, the Turkish president said on Saturday.
"The huge America, the coalition and Turkey can join hands and turn Raqqa into a graveyard for Daesh," Recep Tayyip Erdogan told an Istanbul meeting, using an alternative name for the IS group.
"They will look for a place for themselves to hide," he said.
Erdogan's comments came ahead of a meeting with President Donald Trump on 16 May in the United States.
Turkey sees the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in Syria as a terrorist group linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has been waging a deadly insurgency against Ankara since 1984.
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