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Turkey: anti-IS or anti-Assad?

Turkey's PM struck back at accusations that his government is more interested in toppling Syrian president Bashir al-Asad than defeating Islamic State militants massing on its border.

"Turkey is against ISIS just the same way that it is against Assad," Davutoglu told reporters in Ankara.

"Assad and ISIS are both responsible for all these events and tragedies."

A tweet by Turkey's minister of culture: