Defense Minister Yılmaz said Turkey has not provided any support to the US in its air campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq, noting that the Islamic State still holds captive 49 Turks from Turkey’s Mosul consulate. Turkey is planning to set up a second refugee camp inside Iraq for Turkmen fleeing the Islamic State; some 300,000 are said to have been displaced in the past two months but most are not allowed into Turkey.
