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U.S. defense chief urges Turkey to do more in fight against IS

Xinhua, January 23, 2016 Adjust font size:

United States Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said on Friday that Turkey could do more in the fight against Islamic State (IS) militants.

"I would like Turkey to do more," Carter said while responding to a question at a session held at the World Economic Forum in Davos about whether Turkey had done enough to help the United States.

According to Carter, Turkey is a long term friend and the U.S. is strongly supportive and stands with it in terms of defense of its own territory.

Carter said he is grateful to Turkey which is helping the U.S. fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) by for example hosting the U.S. aircraft in Turkey.

"But the reality is that it shares a big border with Iraq and Syria, which border has been porous to foreign fighters going in both directions and I think the Turks can do more," he said.

Turkey is on the list of countries that can make distinctive, unique and necessary contributions to the defeat of ISIL, he added. Enditem