Turkish Army Dispatches Long Military Convoy to Northwestern Syria

TEHRAN (defapress)- The Turkish Army forwarded a long convoy of military vehicles to Northern Hama and Idlib province on Wednesday.

News ID: 72840

Date: 03 October 2018 - 15:26

The convoy that included 40 heavy vehicles, including tanks and trucks carrying logistical hardware headed to the regions that are under the Ankara forces' occupation in the town of Morek and in the village of Shir Maqar in Northern Hama as well as the monitoring posts in al-Sarman and Ashtabraq regions in Idlib.

Field sources reported that five military vehicles of the National Liberation Front terrorists accompanied the Turkish convoy.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated on Tuesday that Ankara would strengthen military presence in Idlib and reinforce their established observation posts.

According to Erdogan, Turkey was working with their Russian partners to eliminate the radical groups in Idlib, while also dissipating the hostilities between the government and opposition.

Turkey currently has twelve official observation posts in Northwestern Syria, with most of them concentrated in Idlib and Aleppo provinces.

The Turkish military also has an observation post in Lattakia that was not part of the Astana Agreement.

This Turkish observation post is located along the Northeastern slope of the Kurdish mountains; it overlooks much of the Jisr Al-Shughour District.

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