MIDEAST-CRISIS/TURKEY BORDER Turkish-Syrian border calm after YPG accuse Turkish army of shelling its positions

Record ID: 146248

  • Title: MIDEAST-CRISIS/TURKEY BORDER Turkish-Syrian border calm after YPG accuse Turkish army of shelling its positions
  • Date: 27th July 2015
  • Summary: KARKAMIS, TURKEY (JULY 26, 2015) (REUTERS) SELF-PROPELLED HOWITZER LEAVING TURKISH MILITARY POST VARIOUS OF SELF-PROPELLED HOWITZER DRIVING ON ROAD TURKISH SOLDIERS PATROLLING KARKAMIS, TURKEY (JULY 27, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF THE AREA / SYRIAN TOWN OF JARABLUS SEEN IN THE BACKGROUND TURKISH SOLDIERS ON GUARD VARIOUS OF TURKISH OUTPOST ON HILLTOP VARIOUS OF TURKISH FLAG
  • Embargoed: 11th August 2015 13:00
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  • Story Text: Turkey's border with Syria remained calm on Monday morning (July 27) after the Kurdish YPG militia said the Turkish army shelled its positions on Sunday evening (July 26) in a village on the outskirts of the Islamic State-held border town of Jarablus in northern Syria and urged Ankara to halt attacks on its forces.
    Several tank rounds from across the border hit YPG positions and the Turkish army was targeting them instead of the "terrorists", a YPG statement said.
    The statement also said a YPG vehicle came under heavy fire from the Turkish military in a village east of the devastated border city of Kobani.
    But on Monday (July 27) the Turkish foreign ministry denied the militia group's claim, saying Turkey did not bomb Kurdish YPG positions.
    Turkey has dramatically escalated its role in the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State, which has seized much of Syria's north and east, since a suspected IS suicide bomber killed 32 people in a town close to the Syrian border.
    But it has also struck Kurdish targets.
    Turkish fighter jets and ground forces hit Islamic State militants in Syria and Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) camps in Iraq on Saturday, in a campaign Ankara said would help create a "safe zone" across swathes of northern Syria.
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