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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkey says it hit 115 Syrian targets after attacks on soldiers
2020-02-11
[Jpost] Ottoman Turkish forces struck dozens of Syrian government targets in northwestern Syria on Monday after five Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed in an attack on a military base in Idlib province, the Ottoman Turkish defense ministry said.
"Let's you and him fight"
The base at the town of Taftanaz was attacked a week after eight Ottoman Turkish military personnel were killed by Syrian shelling in Idlib following The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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's deployment of thousands of troops to stem a Syrian government offensive in the rebel-held region.Hitting back after Monday's attack, in which five Ottoman Turkish solders were also maimed, Ottoman Turkish forces fired on 115 Syrian government targets and destroyed 101 of them, including three tanks, two mortar positions and one helicopter, the defense ministry said in a later statement.

The incidents are among the most serious confrontations between Ottoman Turkish and Syrian troops in nearly nine years of conflict in Syria, and Turkey has said it will drive back Syrian forces if they do not pull back by the end of this month.

"Their attacks against our posts have made an operation necessary," Omer Celik, front man for President Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party, told news hounds in Ankara.

The rapid advance by Syrian government forces in Idlib, the last major enclave of gunnies opposed to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
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, has driven nearly 700,000 people from their homes towards the closed-off Ottoman Turkish border.

Turkey, which already hosts 3.6 million Syrian refugees, says it cannot absorb any more and is ready for military action to halt the Syrian government advances.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  Turkish forces fired on 115 Syrian government targets and destroyed 101 of them, including three tanks, two mortar positions and one helicopter, the defense ministry said in a later statement.

"And the other 95 destroyed targets were disguised as 'Sand'."
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2020-02-11 15:32  

#1  fwiw, the first anniversary of Syria's "Dawn of Idlib" campaign (backed by Russian air power) is 30 April 2020

Turkish proxies, mercenaries, agents and soldiers have been involved in this since about August 2019
Posted by: lord garth   2020-02-11 07:44  

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