Turkish PM: Turkey does not plan to send more troops to Afghanistan
25.10.2009 17:31 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a
joint press conference with his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza
Gilani in Islamabad said Turkey does not plan to send more troops to
Afghanistan. "We have currently around 1700-1800 troops there and we
do not have plan to send more," he said, reported Turkish news
agencies.

Turkey will assume command of the International Security Assistance
Force in Afghanistan from November 1, 2009.