Turkey approves two-year military deployment to Somalia

Turkey’s parliament on Saturday approved a motion to deploy its armed forces to Somalia,  including to the country’s territorial waters.

The two-year operation aims to support Mogadishu’s counterterrorism operations and comes months after the two countries signed a defence and economic cooperation deal.

Al Qaeda-linked Al Shabaab has been waging an insurgency against the Somali government since 2006 in a bid to establish to…