title: Turkish parliament extends mandate on troop deployment in Iraq, Syria
text: ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey s parliament voted on Saturday to extend by a year a mandate authorizing the deployment of Turkish troops in Iraq and Syria, two days before a planned independence referendum in northern Iraq s Kurdish region. Turkey said earlier it would take security, political and economic steps in response to the referendum, which President Tayyip Erdogan s spokesman said was a  terrible mistake that will trigger new crises in the region .  