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Turkey sends more troops, tanks on Syria border
Turkey sends more troops, tanks on Syria border
The Turkish army continued to dispatch tanks, artillery and other equipment to the Syrian border early Dec. 26. Click through for the story in photos...
More than 40 train cars carried armored vehicles from the Central Anatolian province of Çankırı to Gaziantep in Turkey's southeast.
Parts of the convoy entered Syria in areas held by Turkish-backed Syrian rebels.
Turkey-backed Syrian opposition fighters have been moving to the outskirts of Manbij.
Turkey strarted to send reinforcements to the border with Syria earlier this week, after Washington ordered the withdrawal of U.S. ground forces from the country.
A Turkish military convoy with howitzers and artillery batteries as well as different units of the armed forces was deployed to the border district of Elbeyli in Kilis province on Dec. 24.
The military reinforcements would take place “gradually,” İHA news agency reported, adding that parts of the convoy had entered Syria.
The deployment began over the weekend with around 100 vehicles, which had crossed into the Al-Bab region of northern Syria.
Here are more photos from the latest deployment...
Military reinforcements had also been sent to border towns Akçakale and Ceylanpınar.
They were headed towards Jarabulus and Manbij which is held by a U.S.-backed YPG militants, viewed by Ankara as terrorists linked to the illegal PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organzaition by Turkey, the EU, and the U.S.
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