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TURKEY BEEFS UP MILITARY PRESENCE NEAR SYRIAN BORDER AFTER CLASHES
17:13 19/07/2013 " IN THE WORLD
Turkey has been beefing up its military presence along the Syrian
border following the clashes between a Syrian Kurdish armed party
and al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front, Xinhua reported, citing local daily
Hurriyet.
Turkish F-16 jets and unmanned aerial vehicles scrambled from their
base in Turkey's southeastern province of Diyarbakir for patrolling
over the border town of Ras al-Ayn, according to the report.
People's Defense Units, the militant wing of the Democratic Union
Party, an affiliate of the banned Kurdish Workers' Party, and Nusra
Front have been engaged in a fight for three days in the Syrian town
of Ras al-Ayn, near the Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar in the
province of Sanliurfa.
The Turkish Armed Forces also dispatched soldiers and tanks to the
border and Turkey had returned fire into the Syrian territory on July
17, after shots fired from the Syrian side killed one Turkish citizen
and seriously wounded two others.
In October 2012, a mortar bomb fired from the Syrian side landed in
the southeastern Turkish town of Akcakale, killing a woman and four
children and wounding at least 13 others.
Source: Panorama.am
17:13 19/07/2013 " IN THE WORLD
Turkey has been beefing up its military presence along the Syrian
border following the clashes between a Syrian Kurdish armed party
and al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front, Xinhua reported, citing local daily
Hurriyet.
Turkish F-16 jets and unmanned aerial vehicles scrambled from their
base in Turkey's southeastern province of Diyarbakir for patrolling
over the border town of Ras al-Ayn, according to the report.
People's Defense Units, the militant wing of the Democratic Union
Party, an affiliate of the banned Kurdish Workers' Party, and Nusra
Front have been engaged in a fight for three days in the Syrian town
of Ras al-Ayn, near the Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar in the
province of Sanliurfa.
The Turkish Armed Forces also dispatched soldiers and tanks to the
border and Turkey had returned fire into the Syrian territory on July
17, after shots fired from the Syrian side killed one Turkish citizen
and seriously wounded two others.
In October 2012, a mortar bomb fired from the Syrian side landed in
the southeastern Turkish town of Akcakale, killing a woman and four
children and wounding at least 13 others.
Source: Panorama.am