Turkey has announced that it will begin a military drill on Wednesday along the Syrian border, aimed at discouraging growing Kurdish unity in northern Syrian towns. The Kurdish rebels, collaborating with Syria’s Kurdish-majority Democratic Union Party, have taken over five separate towns in northern Syria, which Turkey believes could morph into a safe haven for Kurdish separatists.
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