Turkey to complete Syrian border wall by February 2017

Record ID: 85167

  • Title: Turkey to complete Syrian border wall by February 2017
  • Date: 28th September 2016
  • Summary: ATIMA, SYRIA (FILMED FROM REYHANLI, TURKEY) (SEPTEMBER 28, 2016) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF WALL AT SYRIA'S TURKEY BORDER SEEN OVER GREEN FIELD / BUILDINGS IN DISTANCE HARIM, SYRIA (FILMED FROM REYHANLI, TURKEY) (SEPTEMBER 28, 2016) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF WALL AND WATCHTOWER UNDER CONSTRUCTION REYHANLI, TURKEY (SEPTEMBER 28, 2016) (REUTERS) INCOMPLETE TURKISH WATCHTOWER AT TURKEY SYRIA BORDER SEEN BY WINDING TRACK WIRE FENCE IN FRONT OF WALL ALONG BORDER VIEW OF WHITE WALL ALONGSIDE SYRIAN BORDER TURKISH ARMY ARMOURED VEHICLE STATIONED AT BORDER HARIM, SYRIA (FILMED FROM REYHANLI, TURKEY) (SEPTEMBER 28, 2016) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF WALL ALONGSIDE BORDER WITH TURKEY / DAMAGED BUILDINGS SEEN IN DISTANCE REYHANLI, TURKEY (SEPTEMBER 28, 2016) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF WALL AT TURKEY BORDER WITH SYRIA
  • Embargoed: 13th October 2016 14:36
  • Keywords: Turkey Syria wall Islamic State border Reyhanli Atima Harim
  • Location: REYHANLI TURKEY / ATIMA, SYRIA (FILMED FROM REYHANLI, TURKEY) / HARIM, SYRIA (FILMED FROM REYHANLI, TURKEY)
  • City: REYHANLI TURKEY / ATIMA, SYRIA (FILMED FROM REYHANLI, TURKEY) / HARIM, SYRIA (FILMED FROM REYHANLI, TURKEY)
  • Country: Syria
  • Topics: Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA00151HDHS7
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: A concrete wall being built to stop illegal crossings along the length of Turkey's 900-km. (560-mile) border with Syria will be finished by the end of February, an official at a Turkish state institution with knowledge of the project said on Wednesday (September 28).
    Ankara has long been under pressure from its NATO allies to seal off the border with Islamic State-controlled territory in Syria and is also concerned by the presence of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, which controls most of its Syrian border.
    Construction on a border wall to combat smuggling and illegal migration started as early as 2014 even as Turkey maintained an open-border policy that has seen nearly three million Syrians seek refuge in the country.
    Made up of seven-tonne portable blocks topped with razor wire, the wall will be three metres (10 feet) high and two metres (6.5 feet) wide. New watchtowers on roads patrolled by armoured vehicles have already been erected along the border this year as part of increased security measures.
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