Turkey May Be Limited in Helping to Drive IS From Raqqa

While Turkey’s president says Ankara and Washington are discussing joint military action in Raqqa, the Syrian headquarters of the Islamic State group, Turkey’s options may be limited. “It will not be a massive 30,000, 40,000 soldiers entering into Syria,” said Turkish political columnist Semih Idiz of the Al Monitor website. “I do not think the Turkish public is ready for that kind of involvement anyway. So it will be forces in the hundreds, with heavy artillery and air...

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