Turkey allows more patrol flights on Syria border by NATO allies: official

Turkey has balanced its military guidelines of engagement to permit NATO associates to do more watch flights along its fringe with northern Syria, a Turkish authority said on Tuesday.

"Some NATO nations, particularly Britain, griped that they couldn't perform enough watch flights on Turkey's Syrian outskirt as the engagement tenets were excessively strict," the authority told Reuters.

"After talks ... Turkey facilitated these engagement principles to align them with NATO arrangements," he said. NATO was told about the move around three weeks prior, the authority said, however coalition nations had not yet completed extra flights.

(Reporting by Tulay Karadeniz; Editing by David Dolan; Writing by Nick Tattersall; Editing by Ece Toksabay)

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