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Turkey 'has no plans for ground troops' in Syria

There are no plans to send ground troops into Syria, the Turkish Prime Minister has said.

The statement follows last week's suicide bombing in the Turkish town of Suruc, to which the country responded with operations against Islamic State and PKK Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria.

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Turkish airstrikes on Kurdish targets in northern Iraq

Turkish air strikes hit six Kurdish militant targets in Turkey and northern Iraq overnight, a statement from the prime minister's office said.

Turkish authorities have also detained a total of 1,302 people in 39 provinces as part of a crackdown targeting members of Islamic State, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and illegal leftist groups, the statement said.

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