Al Jazeera: Turkey ready to take over Syria's Manbij, Erdogan tells Trump
In phone conversation, Turkish leader tells US counterpart recent bombing that killed US personnel was ISIL provocation.
Turkey is ready to take over security in Manbij, a town in northeast Syria held by Kurdish forces where four US personnel died in a bombing last week, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told his United States counterpart in a phone call.
A statement by the Turkish presidency said that Erdogan on Sunday told Donald Trump that the attack in Manbij was a provocation by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group to influence the expected US troop withdrawal from the war-torn country.
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