Türkiye acting against terrorist groups trying to exploit security situation in region

Türkiye is taking steps against terrorist groups trying to exploit the security situation in neighboring Syria and the region at large, the country’s National Defense Ministry said on Thursday. 

“Türkiye is taking preventive, destructive measures against terrorist groups that are trying to gain ground by taking advantage of the situation threatening the security of Syria and our region,” Rear Adm. Zeki Akturk, the ministry’s spokesman, told a weekly news conference in the capital Ankara.