Turkish troops invaded Syria
Turkish troops invaded the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic.
About it with reference to own source in the Kurdish militia said the Agency Sputnik. The border crossing occurred near the checkpoint Bab al-Hiwa Idlib province.
We are talking about the transfer to Syria of special groups. The troops, according to the source, is about 100 people. However, they can be followed and other parts.
Earlier about plans to transfer to Syria of the extended contingent and said the United States, as already reported by Russian business magazine. However, the American and the Turkish military may be on opposite sides of the front line. Soldiers of the Turkish army will carry out the fight against Kurdish militias. American experts, in turn, assisted by the militias of the Kurds.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said all Syrian Kurds are terrorists, and the U.S. actively cooperate with them. It already became a reason for discontent of the Turkish leadership. However, despite all the protests from Ankara, Washington has no plans to curtail cooperation with them.
We will remind, in January-February 2016 the Russian defense Ministry recorded the concentration of large groups of Turkish troops near the Syrian border. Everything pointed to the fact that Turkey is preparing a large-scale invasion of Syria. To not allow Russian military to get a full picture of what is happening in the border areas, Turkey's refusal to fulfill its international obligations and has canceled the carry out observation flight over these territories in the framework of the Treaty "open sky".
At the same time about the plans for invasion in Syria have declared and Saudi Arabia, which intended to collect a population of 150 thousand people from the armies of the Arab countries.
However, the zeal of Ankara and Riyadh in the beginning of the year managed to quickly cool (read more: Russia preparing for war). In Russia began large-scale exercises with a transfer to the southern borders of the country of additional forces has led to the fact that American allies, preparing an aggression against Syria, abandoned their plans. This was possible due to the fact that they realize that Russia is ready to intervene to stop their illegal activities.
Photos: 2016 AFP/ Bulent Kilic
