Xinhua News Agency
February 27, 2015
Turkey, U.S. to start training Syrian rebels on March 1
ANKARA: Turkey and the United States will launch a program for training and equipping Syrian rebels on March 1, spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry Tanju Bilgic said on Friday.
On Feb. 19, Turkey and the U. S. signed an agreement for providing training and equipment for the Syrian opposition forces.
The program aims to train a total of 15,000 Syrian opposition fighters in a three-year period, 5,000 of them will be trained at a military base in the central Turkish city of Kirsehir.
The Syrian rebels will be trained and equiped to fight both the Islamic State (IS) militants and Syrian government forces, Turkish Foreign Minister Cavusoglu said.
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