Turkey shrugs off Taliban warning over Kabul airport
Flights to evacuate Afghan interpreters will begin by the end of July, the White House said today.
![Afghan President Hamid Karzai (L) shakes hands with a Turkish soldier.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/2021-07/GettyImages-72089802.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=JHoAVfLA)
Ankara is signaling that the Taliban’s warnings against plans to leave Turkish security forces at the Kabul airport after NATO withdraws from Afghanistan are not being taken seriously.
BBC Turkish cited an unnamed security official this morning as saying that the Taliban’s latest threats to treat remaining Turkish forces as enemy occupiers are being interpreted as little more than posturing.