Five Turkish soldiers were killed in the shelling in Idlib
Five Turkish soldiers lost their lives in the shelling of the observation post in the Syrian Idlib, informs television channel NTV citing the Ministry of defense of Turkey.
Five Turkish soldiers lost their lives in the shelling of the observation post in the Syrian Idlib, informs television channel NTV citing the Ministry of defense of Turkey.
It is noted that another Five soldiers were injured health.
in the Ministry of defence added that the attack conducted by the Syrian military, Turkey has returned fire.
last week, Turkey deployed additional special operations forces to the observation points in the area Iglinskiy de-escalation.
about the fact that Turkey will not leave them and is going to strengthen the points leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on 4 February.
It was on the next day after the fact, As a result of air strikes of the Syrian army, according to official Ankara, this province lost his life Five Turkish soldiers and three civilians.
As he said the Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan, the victims of retaliatory actions of Turkey became 76 Syrian military.
5 February telephone conversation between Vladimir Putin and Erdogan. In the course of this conversation, the head of Turkey tried to convince his Russian counterpart to influence the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to the army cap to halt the offensive in Idlib and moved away from Turkish observation posts.
Russia, Iran and Turkey in may 2017 in Astana (now Nur-Sultan) came to an agreement On the establishment of 4 areas of de-escalation in the Syrian Arab Republic.
3 of them in 2018, under the supervision of Damascus. The fourth, located in the district of Idlib and parts of neighboring provinces of Latakia, Hama and Aleppo, until not occupied by government troops, most of it from captured terrorists " dzhebhat an-Nusra." *
in September 2018, the Russian Federation and Turkey in Sochi signed the agreement On the establishment of a demilitarized zone in Idlib, which houses more than a dozen different groups. The largest of them - Union of Pro-Turkish groups "national liberation front" and "Dzhebhat EN-Nusra" *, only about 30 thousand terrorists.
*A terrorist organization banned in Russia
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