In the air strike in Idlib killed 22 Turkish soldiers
Twenty-two Turkish soldiers lost their lives in the end air strike in the Syrian province of Idlib, said about it in the TV channel NTV, the Governor of neighboring Syria, the Turkish province of Hatay Rahmi Dogan.
Twenty-two Turkish soldiers lost their lives in the end air strike in the Syrian province of Idlib, said about it in the TV channel NTV, the Governor of neighboring Syria, the Turkish province of Hatay Rahmi Dogan.
according to his statement struck Syrian air force.
As stated by the administration of the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on Thursday evening, the conference on security, which was attended by head of security agencies and the foreign Minister of Turkey Mevlut Cavusoglu. In addition, the foreign Minister held a telephone conversation with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
before the Syrian state SANA Agency informed that the militants with the assistance of the Turkish army began an offensive in the area of Sarakibe in Idlib, which is in early February, released by the Syrian military. The terrorists used dozens of suicide bombers and a car bomb, the existing military units carry out intensive artillery fire.
for its part, the television channel "Russia 24" said that the Turkish units shelled positions in Idlib the Syrian army and Russian planes in the Idlib area.
Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan have said before, that until not received a satisfying result in the negotiations with Russia on Idlib and Ankara is ready to the beginning of hostilities in the region. For its part, the head of the Syrian Arab Republic Bashar al-Assad has said that Damascus will continue the liberation of the provinces of Aleppo and Idlib, despite the reactions in Turkey.
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 area 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." *
then, in September of 2018, Moscow and Ankara in the negotiations in Sochi adopted a conclusion about creating 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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