Turkey will retaliate, will continue to run because of the attacks on its troops in the Syrian region of Idlib, said the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday. A day earlier, four Turkish soldiers have been killed by Syrian government forces.
During the attack on Sunday were also nine Turkish soldiers killed or wounded. One of them has a serious injury. The Turkish authorities started immediately with retaliatory attacks.
Erdogan now says that these actions will continue, and that the forty sites have been designated as a target. During the attacks, several F-16’s. On the basis of available information, report to the president, and that between 30% and 35 Syrian soldiers have been eliminated.
in Idlib was the last of the large area that it is in the hands of the rebels. The armed forces of the Syrian president, Bashar Al Assad, trying to get them to chase and get the help of the Russian air force. Turkey supports a just, several rebel factions in Syria.
Turkish soldiers on Sunday were bombarded by artillery fire from the Syrian army, and had, according to History, the all-in Idlib present troops, helping to prevent new clashes. Also, their locations have been pre-coordinated.
hundreds of Thousands of Syrians have fled the violence in Idlib. (Photo: Reuters)
in Turkey fear the arrival of the refugees < / p> Turkey and Russia at the beginning of January, a cease-fire and agreed to it, but that did not last. The authorities in Turkey had hoped for, with the declaration of a cease-fire and a new vluchtelingenstormen to avoid it.
Turkey is home to about 3.6 million Syrian refugees and fears that this number will rise further. In the past two months have been especially 390.000 people have fled the violence in the south of Idlib. Most of the people traveling to other cities or towns that are north of the city in the region.
The United Nations said last week that, on average, about 700,000 people in the north-west of Syria, on his way to the Turkish side of the border. Erdogan said, a day after Turkey’s possible military operation if fighting continued.