Turkey to build wall on Turkish-Iranian border

[Hindustani78]

REUTERS photo
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/tu...der-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=112842&NewsCatID=341

Turkey is planning to build a wall along the Turkish-Iranian border as part of measures against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), according to a high-level official.

“The PKK has the Maku, Dambat, Navur, Kotr, Keneresh and Şehidan camps inside Iran near the Turkish border. There are some 800-1,000 PKK terrorists in those camps. They enter Turkey, carry out attacks and leave,” an official told daily Hürriyet on May 8, adding that they escape to those camps when security operations are conducted in the eastern province of Ağrı and the Mount Tendürek region.

“As a precaution against this, we are going to build a wall along 70 kilometers of the border near Ağrı and [the eastern province of] Iğdır, and we will close the rest of it with towers and iron fences. In addition, we are placing lights on the border,” he also said.

Turkey previously built a wall along the Syrian border in order to prevent the PKK and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from carrying out suicide attacks.

Moreover, cameras will be set up along the highway between the eastern province of Tunceli and the neighboring province of Elazığ as part of measures against the PKK. The high-level official said activities along the 140-kilometer-long road will be kept under surveillance 24 hours a day.

“They previously set up a bomb in a culvert near a road that a military motorcade was going to use on the Elazığ-Tunceli highway. The bomb was found and it was neutralized. We will watch that highway with cameras 24 hours a day. Cameras will be set up, and the process will be concluded as soon as possible,” he said.

According to the official, the security forces who carry out operations against the PKK and ISIL need morale.

“The security forces need high spirits in this process. We need to strengthen their mood,” he said.

The official also talked about the operations carried out against the PKK in cities.

“The PKK was sending armed terrorists to city centers in order to put pressure on cities. The gendarmerie and the police coordinated very well. In the last two or three weeks, we determined and neutralized them in the city centers. Furthermore, we immediately intervened when armed drones spotted PKK militants. After that the group started changing its tactics. It took decisions such as, ‘Armed militants won’t go to the cities, they won’t move in groups of 15 or 20, they will travel around in groups of three or four,’” he said.
May/08/2017

 

[Mucahit]

lt has already began

 

[Deliorman]

That's good news but Turkey should build a wall all the way from the Med sea to the border with Georgia. Mine fields should be included too.

 

[Attila the Hun]

We should make Iran pay for this.

Please Iranian loving Turks do not report this. It's just a joke

 

[Sully3]

this is what you call a pro active government, before the issue arises they are addressing it.

We in Pakistan have been calling for afghan fenced border since 2001 nearly 2 decades ago and we still haven't done anything. Now problems are starting on Iran border we sane people are asking for a proper border protection against Iran. maybe it will take another 20 years from not for us to understand why is was important to seal our borders.

 

[Timur]

good thing mine that area except some checkpoints! you cant trust mullahs than we need a wall between turkey and armenia..

because if you secure iranian border than you need to do the same with their armenian brothers , otherwise it would be a waste of money

 

[Attila the Hun]

The "Turkish Wall," which was built on the Syrian border due to security reasons, is being patrolled by troops along the 900-kilometer (559-mile) long corridor.

As part of its anti-terror measures, Turkey has decided to erect a wall along its border with Iran to, stop the cross-border mobility of PKK terrorists. Turkey has also built a 900-kilometer wall along its Syrian border which has been effective against Daesh and PKK terrorists crossing into Turkey

Turkey is preparing to build a wall on its Iranian border similar to the one on its Syrian border as a part of new security measures aiming to prevent terrorist organizations from gaining entry to the country, according to some Turkish media reports, citing security sources.

There are several camps that belong to the PKK, hosting approximately a thousand terrorists, within the Iranian border. In the case of military operations against the PKK bases in eastern Turkey, the terrorists can easily go beyond the border and take shelter in those camps or illegally cross the border and enter the country. In order to prevent such crossings, a plan has been made for a wall to be built along the Iranian border, similar to the one on Turkey's Syrian border.

Dubbed the "Turkish Wall" by the local media drawing comparisons to the Great Wall of China, the concrete blocks that straddle the 900-kilometer (559-mile) long border are being patrolled by troops.

The wall encompassing Turkey's volatile border with its southern neighbor Syria is one of the longest walls in the world. A 77-kilometer section of the 105-kilometer-long wall between Azaz and Jarablus, two previously Daesh-controlled Syrian towns cleared by the Free Syrian Army (FSA), has already been completed. Turkish authorities have announced that the wall will be finished in the first half of 2017.

The concrete blocks, which are each 2 meters wide, 3 meters high and weigh 7 tons, are being installed on a border where Turkey faces the threat of infiltration and attacks by both Daesh and a Syrian-affiliate of the PKK, the Democratic Union Party (PYD).

The wall's construction was hampered at times by a spillover of violence from Syria, which is engulfed in an ongoing conflict with multiple actors, including forces loyal to Bashar Assad, Daesh and the PYD.

The wall is being built behind minefields, deep ditches, and is being reinforced with barbed wire and steel fences. Soldiers secure the area from watch towers along the wall, while armored military vehicles patrol around the clock.

Military sources say it has already significantly curbed smuggling and "irregular crossings."

The wall also extends to the country's border with Iraq, where both Daesh and the PKK have hideouts.

https://www.dailysabah.com/politics...ns-to-build-security-wall-on-border-with-iran

Now the Greek, Georgian, Armenian borders left.

 

[MTN1917]

I don't know why Turks chose the Igdir and Agri as far as I know Igdir is home to Turkey's Azeris and northwestern part of Iranian province of West Azerbaijan is very safe, the Qandil mountains and the regions bordering what I believe is Turkish Hakkari province is much more restive.

Overall I believe that building a border wall will be a good development for Iran too, better wall all of the border instead of only Igdir and Agri.

 

[Muhammed45]

I don't know why Turks chose the Igdir and Agri as far as I know Igdir is home to Turkey's Azeris and northwestern part of Iranian province of West Azerbaijan is very safe, the Qandil mountains and the regions bordering what I believe is Turkish Hakkari province is much more restive.

Overall I believe that building a border wall will be a good development for Iran too, better wall all of the border instead of only Igdir and Agri.

This is good at all. We must do it too. It's a long time that YPG is annoying us in those boundaries. I see Israel's footprint in Kurdish controlled areas.

 

[azaher77]

Step in the right direction

 

[xenon54 out]

I don't know why Turks chose the Igdir and Agri as far as I know Igdir is home to Turkey's Azeris and northwestern part of Iranian province of West Azerbaijan is very safe, the Qandil mountains and the regions bordering what I believe is Turkish Hakkari province is much more restive.

Overall I believe that building a border wall will be a good development for Iran too, better wall all of the border instead of only Igdir and Agri.

Smuggling is a big problem.

 

[Serpentine]

“The PKK has the Maku, Dambat, Navur, Kotr, Keneresh and Şehidan camps inside Iran near the Turkish border. There are some 800-1,000 PKK terrorists in those camps.

This is a big lie. They (officials) just needed an excuse to build the wall (which is not a bad thing at all), I don't understand the necessity to come up with such BS to build a wall. Just go ahead and build the wall.

 

[Mucahit]

This is a big lie. They (officials) just needed an excuse to build the wall (which is not a bad thing at all), I don't understand the necessity to come up with such BS to build a wall. Just go ahead and build the wall.

Dude, it's not a secret that PKK has camps inside lran.

They have been attacking Turkey from lran for the last 30 years.

 

[KediKesenFare3]

This is a big lie. They (officials) just needed an excuse to build the wall (which is not a bad thing at all), I don't understand the necessity to come up with such BS to build a wall. Just go ahead and build the wall.

PKK camps in North Iran had been tolerated by the Iranians for many years. Back than, Turkey regularly bombed Iranian territory. Your decision-makers decided to fight PKK within Iranian borders only recently. You were late on realizing the dangerous repercussions for Iran. Today, of course, the situation is different due to the developments in Iraq and Syria.


BBC 1991
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/398409.stm
(...)
According to Iranian media reports, Turkish warplanes attacked a base of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards in the border between Iran and Iraq region where Kurdish rebels have been active.

IRNA quoted a foreign ministry official as saying that Iran "reserved every right to take necessary steps ... and considered the Turkish government responsible for the consequences of the aggression".

The Turkish Government has in the past repeatedly accused Iran of sheltering PKK guerrillas, an allegation denied by Tehran.

Correspondents say the Turkish army carries out regular strikes against Kurdish separatists on Iranian territory.

Reports in the Turkish media have claimed that the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) recently relocated some of its bases and training camps from northern Iraq to Iran.

The last major incident of a similar kind came in 1996 when Turkish warplanes bombed a site in Iran.

Turkey apologised for the attack, saying it was seeking Kurdish rebels.

 

[Taimoor Khan]

SO.... Iran is hosting PKK terrorists on Turkish border who are conducting terrorists activities on Turkish soil and then run back to their sanctuaries in Iran. Turkish forces should conduct strikes on Iranian soil.

Now where did I hear the simliar thing before!!