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The Grand Turk
Turkey Builds Concrete Wall along Syria Border to Avoid Attacks
2015-08-15
[ALMANAR.LB] The Turkish military has started building a concrete wall along the border with Syria following a series of attacks, state media said Friday.
All the kewl kids are doing it.
The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) is building the three meter (10 feet) high wall in the Reyhanli district of Hatay province just across from the Syrian town of Atmeh, the official Anatolia news agency said.

The military is also digging ditches just behind the wall, which will stretch eight kilometers (five miles), Anatolia added.
Will the ditches be enough to block the tunnels ISIS is reported to have dug under the border?
A bombing killed 33 people in a mainly Kurdish town in southern The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
 on July 20, ending a truce between Ankara and the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which is active in southeastern Turkey.

The toll rose overnight when one of the maimed succumbed to his wounds in hospital.

Turkey said the attack was carried out by the so-called 'Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
 group,
...it has been remarked how odd it is that ISIS has concentrated on attacking Erdogan's enemies in Turkey..
. and launched a two-pronged offensive to bomb its Lions of Islam in Syria as well as PKK Lions of Islam in northern Iraq and southeast Turkey.

So far, the operation has focused largely on Kurdish rebels, who have responded by tearing up a 2013 ceasefire and waging a bloody campaign against the security forces.

Hatay is home to thousands of the roughly 1.8 million Syrian refugees who have fled to Turkey to escape the violence at home.

In May 2013 twin boom-mobiles struck the town of Reyhanli, killing 52 people.

Turkey has denied allegations it had failed to do enough to prevent terrorist Lions of Islam crossing its border. But in recent months it has stepped up security, arresting hundreds of suspected terrorists.
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