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22-02-2015, 04:20 PM
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Turkey loots Syria's treasure
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The Turkish army launched a military operation into Syria late Saturday to evacuate the Tomb of Suleyman Shah, which has been besieged by Islamic State militants since last year, Turkish media reported. The operation was reportedly conducted in correspondence with Enver Muslim, the leader of the Syrian Kurdish group in control of Kobani, and aimed to evacuate around 40 soldiers, including 20 elite troops from the Turkish special forces, who guarded the tomb. Reuters reported early Sunday that one Turkish soldier had been killed in an accident during the operation. A large convoy of tanks and other armored vehicles entered Syria through Kobani, the Kurdish territory in Syria that was recently freed of Islamic State militants in a U.S.-led military operation, according to reports by Turkish newspapers Milliyet and Yeni Safak. The reports were pulled from the Internet almost immediately after being posted. The operation started Saturday and continued into Sunday, the reports said, although it was uncertain whether the Turkish military had confronted the Islamic State militants who held the territory around the tomb, which lies about 20 miles inside Syria. Suleyman Shah was the grandfather of the founder of the Ottoman Empire, and his tomb is considered by the government here to be Turkish territory. A Turkish lawmaker said on Twitter that the Turkish military had arrived at the tomb early Sunday. “Our station is taken under protection. Clashes or attacks out of question,” said Sinan Ogan, a deputy in the opposition Nationalist Movement Party. In March, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu of Turkey, the foreign minister at the time, said that Turkey would take any measure necessary to safeguard the security of the tomb, referred to as Turkish soil based on an accord signed between Turkey and France in 1921. “Should there be an attack, either from the regime, or radical groups or elsewhere, it would be countered equally,” he said. As of early Sunday, there had been no official statements regarding the operation. --New York Times News Service http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/201...ion-into-syria Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com. 
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