twitter. com/Z1cGXyI6aF — The Young Turks (@YT_Tulsa) April 7, 2017. On Wednesday, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan slammed President Trump for the decision to send troops to Iraq in exchange for sending soldiers into Syria to combat Daesh and promised support in the war against ISIS. Let's not play too bad [the military solution to Syria conflict], let's play really bad. It will be a war of the Muslims, Erdogan said in a televised address. The answer is to attack Daesh and liberate their place. It will be another war. We can attack Daesh with us. We will fight against Daesh. Let's fight together. Turkish military forces have been conducting operations in Iraq and Syria since February as a result of a US-led coalition backed by Russia. The Trump administration decided in December to pull U. forces out of Iraq after more than 9,000 Iraqi civilians and dozens of Russian military personnel were killed in the conflict between Kurdish militants who controlled parts of Iraq and Syria and Isis fighters who captured swathes of land.