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Turkish officials said that they don't want to have war with Syria, despite their authorization to further military operations against the war-torn country earlier today, the L.A. Times said.

"We have no intention for a war," Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.  "We want only peace and security in our region."

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