The Parliament authorized the deployment of Turkish troops in Syria and Iraq and the temporary basing of foreign troops in Turkey; the opposition called the vote an attempt to curry favor with the West and topple the Assad regime, not a serious move against the Islamic State. Authorities arrested 16 female anti-Islamic State protesters on the Bosporus Bridge. Turkey’s top general assured the small cadre of Turkish soldiers guarding the Suleyman Shah tomb in Syria that the military “will come to your side the moment we receive any word about you.”
