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When Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu declared that, should the Security Council be unable to decide because of Russian and Chinese vetoes, Turkey would join the coalition of the willing, what role the Turkish military could play and the limits of its capacity became a hot discussion topic.
Although Turkey has participated in some international operations under US leadership, it had not been a combatant partner since the Korean War. The subtext of the Turkish call that "the international community must intervene in Syria," after giving up hope on the United Nations, is a wish to repeat the Kosovo model in Syria, led by the United States, Britain and France.
