Turkish military convoys and heavy machinery arrive at Syria border

Record ID: 1435674

  • Title: Turkish military convoys and heavy machinery arrive at Syria border
  • Date: 8th October 2019
  • Summary: AKCAKALE, TURKEY (OCTOBER 8, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF BUSES CARRYING MILITARY PERSONNEL ENTERING MILITARY CAMP ON TURKISH-SYRIAN BORDER IN AKCAKALE, TURKEY VARIOUS OF TRUCKS CARRYING HEAVY MACHINERY DRIVING FROM MILITARY CAMP TRUCK CARRYING CONCRETE BLOCKS DRIVING ON ROAD BUS CARRYING MILITARY PERSONNEL DRIVING TOWARDS MILITARY CAMP BUS CARRYING MILITARY PERSONNEL TURNING TOWARDS MILITARY CAMP / MORE MILITARY VEHICLES DRIVING TOWARDS MILITARY CAMP BUS CARRYING MILITARY PERSONNEL DRIVING TOWARDS MILITARY CAMP MILITARY VEHICLES DRIVING TOWARDS MILITARY CAMP
  • Embargoed: 22nd October 2019 15:38
  • Keywords: Turkey Syria US military operation Syrian Kurdish militia YPG Free Syrian army
  • Location: AKCAKALE, TURKEY
  • City: AKCAKALE, TURKEY
  • Country: Turkey
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Military Conflicts
  • Reuters ID: LVA001B08MPTZ
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Vehicles carrying Turkish military personnel and heavy machinery arrived at a military camp on the border with Syria on Tuesday (October 8).
    Trucks bringing concrete blocks, bulldozers and diggers entered a base in the town of Akcakale on Turkey's southern border with Syria in the late afternoon, while soldiers were brought in by buses.
    Turkey says it has finalized preparations for a military push into northeast Syria, after the United States began pulling back troops from the Turkey-Syria frontier area in a move widely criticized in Washington as a betrayal of America's allies.
    The U.S. move will leave Kurdish-led forces long allied to Washington vulnerable to attack by the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK), which brands them terrorists because of their links to Kurdish militants who have waged a long insurgency in Turkey.
    President Donald Trump meanwhile denied the Kurds had been abandoned by the U.S. pullback, praising Turkey as a trade partner and NATO ally in a softening of his tone hours after threatening Ankara's economy if it acted "off limits" in Syria.
    (Production: Mert Ozkan, Chiara Rodriquez)
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