Behind the Türkiye summit: the Korean War in which Turkish troops fought

Background

At this week's summit in Seoul, President Lee Jae Myung recalled that Turkish troops fought alongside South Korean forces in the Korean War.
The war lasted from 1950 to 1953 and killed up to three million people.
Türkiye was among the countries that sent troops to fight on the South's side.
Fighting stopped with an armistice in July 1953, but no peace agreement followed, and a demilitarised zone still divides the two Koreas.
The two leaders described their bond as friendship forged in blood, a phrase rooted in that shared war.