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Wednesday January 27, 2021
Parliament ratifies motion extending deployment through February 2022
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ANKARA—Turkey's parliament on Tuesday approved an extension of Turkish forces serving in the Gulf of Aden, Somalia, and the Arabian Sea.
It ratified a motion extending the authorization of the deployment until Feb. 10, 2022.
Since it was first approved by parliament in 2008, the motion for the deployment has been extended 13 times.