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Defying NATO allies, Turkey calls to brand Kurdish militias as 'terrorists'

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Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to hold up NATO efforts to bolster the protection of the Baltic republics against Russia, unless the allies brand the Kurdish militias who defeated the IS group in Syria as "terrorists".

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