ANKARA - Turkey has decided to send troops to join the expanded UN force in Lebanon, government spokesman Cemil Cicek said on Monday, without saying how many soldiers would be sent or when they would be deployed.
"Turkey can not remain just a spectator, like a country which is distant from events taking place in the Middle East," he said after the decision was taken at a government meeting.
He said parliament would be called quickly to meet to endorse the dispatch.
08/28/2006 13:01 GMT