Turkey, for its part, seems ambivalent about its role in the fight. While it says it won't let ISIS take over the town, it also hasn't joined the effort to stop the group and doesn't seem interested in joining a campaign that will benefit Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, whom Turkey wants to see deposed. Turkey's involvement would also put the country squarely in line with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a group that Turkey has battled for decades.
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