Turkey sealing Syrian border with giant wall

[Kuwaiti Girl]

Ironically, this is great news for Rojava.

 

[xenon54 out]

Ironically, this is great news for Rojava.

Dont worry the gates for tanks are still there, it just stops the terrorists.

 

[Kuwaiti Girl]

Dont worry the gates for tanks are still there, it just stops the terrorists.

Um, doesn't that make it a bullseye? It kinda destroys the surprise element lol. :-/

 

[xenon54 out]

Um, doesn't that make it a bullseye? It kinda destroys the surprise element lol. :-/

You think Turkey needs surprise element? If Turkey decides to take action then ypg wont come closer than 30km to Turkish border in the first place, and the tanks wont roll out before howitzers and airfoce cleaned the area beforehand.

 

[Kuwaiti Girl]

You think Turkey needs surprise element? If Turkey decides to take action then ypg wont come closer than 30km to Turkish border in the first place, and the tanks wont roll out before howitzers and airfoce cleaned the area beforehand.

I think we both agree that it's America that's preventing the Turks from doing what you just said.

Too many American military bases in Rojava right now, so the wall probably doesn't matter anyway.

 

[OldTwilight]

Trump should learn from Erdogan ...

 

[xenon54 out]

I think we both agree that it's America that's preventing the Turks from doing what you just said.

Too many American military bases in Rojava right now, so the wall probably doesn't matter anyway.

Thats exactly the case here.
And yes the wall matters, north syria is future pkk base, better be prepared than sorry.

 

[NomanAli89]

I wish we have same wall with Iran and Afghanistan but with Iran if we build a wall like this then the life of poor depriving Iranian sunnis will become far more difficult then what it is today

 

[Fledgingwings]

Double time it !

 

[AnatolianEagle]

https://twitter.com/x/status/859054300743573505

https://twitter.com/x/status/859055588940107778

 

[AnatolianEagle]

11 April 2017

911km length Turkiye-Syria border

556km border wall built.

http://www.trthaber.com/m/?news=sur...an-fazlasi-bitti&news_id=308951&category_id=2

2 May 2017

Building wall speed up due to more strikes of terror on Turkiye - Syria border

http://www.milliyet.com.tr/suriye-sinir-hattinda-duvar-yapimina-kilis-yerelhaber-2012810/

* End of 2017 border completely covered with wall.

 

[KediKesenFare3]

Walls, drones and mines: Turkey tightens border as Syria incursion deepens

(...)

"I can tell you that right now nobody with a vehicle or on horse can cross our border (illegally)," said infantry colonel Alparslan Kilinc, referring to the 169 km stretch from Hoyuk military post to the Turkish border town of Karkamis that his 1st Border Regiment patrols.

"It is just not possible. There are still attempts by people to cross on foot and we intervene in that."

At Hoyuk, about 80 km northwest of the shattered Syrian city of Aleppo, Turkish soldiers demonstrate their readiness. One peers through binoculars towards Syrian territory from a watchtower at the perimeter of the small walled complex. Troops called to alert slide down a pole to the ground and run to a sandbagged position or mount an armored car.

Engineers are installing a complex set of measures across a territory that includes plains and mountains.

First comes a three-meter (10 foot) high wall, now almost complete, then a mined area. Beyond that lie ditches and fortified fences - an area patrolled by soldiers around the clock and monitored by thermal imaging cameras installed atop 25-metre high steel watchtowers to spot infiltrators at night.

Drones are also being used for surveillance.

As a result, Kilinc said, the number of smuggling attempts, which peaked in 2014 at 3,474 incidents, dropped to just 77 last year. Illegal crossing attempts fell to 8,531 from more than 12,000 over the same period.

Many of those were likely refugees, even though camps have been set up for them on the Syrian side of the border. However, 424 non-Syrian citizens were captured in 2015, with the majority thought to be Islamic State fighters. Last year, that figure fell to 210, along with 49 militants from Kurdish militia.

(...)

Asked about the passage of foreign fighters over the frontier, Kilinc said: "It is almost non-existent. The people trying to cross through here were going to places like al-Bab before. Now those places are emptied."

(...)

"Even the half-finished walls were good at deterring those who wanted to cross, making our job easier," he said. "The external security of a country begins with good protection of its borders."

-> http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-turkey-border-idUSKBN16A1VP

 

[AnatolianEagle]

Turkiye - Syria wall

Turkey has finished the construction of a 700-km wall(totally 828km) along its border with Syria.

 

[Fenasi Kerim]

Does anyone have a map of the wall, where it starts and finishes? Can this be applied to parts of our Iraq border to? or is it too mountainous.

Can the border walls be moved easily? to accommodate our newly acquired lands

 

[Deliorman]

110,000 Syrians return to Syria from Turkey to celebrate Eid

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/11...eid-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=114729&NewsCatID=341




Are they leaving Turkey forever or just went to Syria for a quick celebration and coming back again afterwards?