Turkey’s military vehicles enter Aleppo Province
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A Turkish military vehicle is seen in the northwestern Syrian province of Aleppo. ©ANHA
Turkish military vehicles have entered the northwestern Syrian Province of Aleppo while Turkish troops have been spotted digging a trench there.
The Kurdish Hawar News Agency (ANHA) posted the pictures of Turkey’s military vehicles on its website on Thursday, saying dozens of the vehicles had encroached 200 meters (0.1 miles) into the Province.
The troops were then spotted digging a trench between two villages, known as Sorka and Meidan Ekbis.
The news agency added that a concrete wall was also under construction on the nearby Syrian border.
The area forms part of Rojava, a region within Aleppo which has proclaimed autonomy from the Syrian government but has not been recognized by Damascus as autonomous.
Over the past few days, Turkey has been shelling the positions of fighters of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and its affiliate Democratic Union Party (PYD) in the northern parts of Syria.
Ankara regards the YPG and PYD as allies of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has been fighting for an autonomous Kurdish region inside Turkey since the 1980s.
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