Turkey killed 3,000 Daesh terrorists, says Erdogan

ANKARA, May 13: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkish forces have killed some 3,000 Daesh terrorists in Syria and Iraq, insisting that no other country has matched Turkey’s efforts against the extremist group. In an address to the military chiefs of Balkan nations on Wednesday, Erdogan also denounced nations who have accused Turkey of supporting Daesh as “vile.” At the same meeting earlier, the Turkish military chief, put the number of Daesh rebels killed Syria and Iraq at 1,300. Erdogan’s aides could not immediately be reached to explain the differing figures. Erdogan said: “There have been those who have ... been vile by showing Turkey as a country that helps Daesh. No country in the world has conducted the struggle we are conducting.”