Summary
Turkey's military incursion into Syria to relocate a tomb surrounded by ISIS militants and evacuate the soldiers guarding it was a temporary move to safeguard their lives and not a retreat, President Tayyip Erdogan said Monday.
Normally, the detachment is rotated every six months but the last one was trapped for eight months by ISIS fighters.
At a news conference in Ankara, Kalin also said Turkey was working intensively with the British authorities to trace three London schoolgirls who travelled to Turkey last week and are believed to be making their way to Syria.
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