President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday Turkey will continue to retaliate after ...
ANKARA/ISTANBUL - President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday Turkey will continue to retaliate after Syrian government shelling killed four of its troops and wounded nine in Syria’s northwest Idlib region, where Turkish forces have bulked up in recent days.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, backed by Russian air power, have recently made advances in Idlib, prompting Turkey to warn it may launch a military operation there unless the fighting is halted. A Turkish security official told Reuters that the shelling which killed the soldiers occurred in the area of Saraqeb town, 15 km to the east of Idlib city.
Turkey, which already hosts 3.6 million refugees from Syria, fears a fresh wave of migrants from Idlib. It has 12 military observation posts around the region, set up under a 2017 agreement with Russia and Iran. Several of them have since been surrounded by advancing Syrian government forces.A spokesman for Erdogan’s AK Party said Turkey will view Syrian government forces around the observation posts in the region as “targets”.
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