Türkiye is set to deploy additional forces to Kosovo at the request of NATO amid recent turmoil in the north of the Balkan country
Tensions have gripped Kosovo as local Serbs protested the election of ethnic Albanian mayors in four northern municipalities last month. / Photo: Reuters
“A commando battalion affiliated to our 65th Mechanised Infantry Brigade Command, which was previously assigned to the NATO Kosovo Force, was assigned as a reserve force,” the Turkish National Defence Ministry said in a written statement on Saturday.
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