Turkish Army Deploys More Troops at Border with Syria

TEHRAN (defapress)- The Turkish Army has deployed almost 3,000 fresh forces at border with Syria amid intensifying of tensions with Kurdish militias in Northern Syria, a media outlet reported on Sunday.

News ID: 73072

Date: 14 October 2018 - 15:45

The Kurdish-language Hawar news reported that almost 3,000 Turkish soldiers have been deployed in several border regions opposite the Syrian town of Tal Abyadh on the Eatern Banks of the Euphrates River.

It went on to say that the army further forwarded more military equipment near the border villages West of the Syrian town of Kobani in Aleppo province.

Hawar news said that the army's artillery and mortar units pounded the villages of Ali Shar and al-Ziyarah near Kobani.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently said that the army will kick off large-scale operation against the Kurds on the Eastern banks of the Euphrates River.

The Arabic-language Turk Press claimed on Thursday that the Turkish army sent a military convoy to Northern Syria after the terrorist groups evacuated their heavy weapons from the demilitarized zone.

It added that the convoy consisted of 20 trucks, carrying 20 cement blocks, that entered the Turkish army-held regions in Idlib province.

The report said that each cement block is four meters long, and added that the Turkish army will continue sending military convoys to the regions under its supervision in Idlib.

The Turkish media reported evacuation of heavy weapons from demilitarized zone as the Syrian media sources said that Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) demanded Turkey delay its retreat from the weapons-free zone mentioned in the Sochi Agreement until October 20.

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