Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan convened an extraordinary security council on Thursday on the situation in north-western Syria, media reports said at the time of reports of heavy Turkish casualties.
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According to the NTV and CNN-Türk channels, Erdogan chaired a meeting in Ankara in the evening in the presence of senior officials. Shortly before, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an NGO, had reported 34 Turkish soldiers killed in strikes in the Idleb region, which has not been officially confirmed by Ankara.
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