TURKEY/SYRIA: A Syrian mortar lands on Turkish soil as Turkey reinforces its troops in the border region

Record ID: 281483

  • Title: TURKEY/SYRIA: A Syrian mortar lands on Turkish soil as Turkey reinforces its troops in the border region
  • Date: 9th October 2012
  • Summary: SYRIA (AS FILMED FROM TURKEY) (OCTOBER 8, 2012) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF SYRIAN COUNTRYSIDE AS SEEN FROM TURKEY VARIOUS OF SYRIAN VILLAGE AS SEEN FROM TURKEY. HATAY PROVINCE, TURKEY (OCTOBER 8, 2012) (REUTERS). VARIOUS OF SMOKE RISING AFTER MORTAR ROUND STRIKE
  • Embargoed: 24th October 2012 13:00
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  • Location: Turkey, Syrian Arab Republic
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  • Country: Turkey Syrian Arab Republic
  • Topics: Conflict,International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVAAC7IK1C0T84ZD6NKN1KPQ7XQY
  • Story Text: Turkey's military launched a retaliatory strike after Syria fired a mortar bomb into countryside in Turkey's southern province of Hatay on Monday (October 8), a Turkish state official told Reuters.
    It was the sixth consecutive day of Turkish retaliation against bombardment from the Syrian side of the border, where President Bashar al-Assad's forces are battling rebels.
    The exchanges are the most serious cross-border violence in Syria's revolt against Assad, which began in March last year with protests for reform and has evolved into a civil war with sectarian overtones which threatens to draw in regional powers.
    The latest mortar round from Syria landed 150-200 metres within Turkey's border in the district of Hacipasa at about 3 p.m. (1200 GMT), the official said.
    Turkey's armed forces have bolstered their presence along the 900 km (560 mile) border with Syria in recent days.
    Syrian rebel sources in Syria's Raqqa province, bordering the Turkish town of Akcakale where Syrian shelling killed five civilians last Wednesday, said they had seen five Turkish army trucks full of soldiers, patrolling the Turkish side of the border.
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