Baku – APA. Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Işık met U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter in Brussels on Oct. 26, the second meeting in five days, as two countries ramp up joint efforts to destroy the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Iraq and Syria.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian was also present at the meeting with Işık and Carter, where the trio met in Brussels on the sidelines of NATO defense ministers’ meeting.
The operations conducted against ISIL in Mosul and Syria were the sole themes discussed at the meeting on Oct. 26 between Işık, Carter and Le Drian, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
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