Turkey builds 35-km wall on Syrian border
The Turkish authorities initially said the suicide bomber was a Syrian citizen but later acknowledged Somer was the likely attacker, while insisting he had spent time in northern Syria. Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem has said that any “ground intervention on Syrian territory without government authorization would amount to an aggression that must be resisted”.
The IS attacks in Homs and Damascus on Sunday killed more than 130 people and injured hundreds more.
Konashenkov said in a statement that the center has been created in line with a U.S.-Russian agreement on a cease-fire set to take effect Saturday.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says clashes were underway Monday along the southeastern approaches to the city, which is bitterly divided between the government and the rebels, and also around the town of Khanaser.
He also warned that Turkey could carry on shelling targets of the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia inside Syria, as it did on successive days last week.
Putin said Moscow would work with the Syrian government and expects the United States to do the same with the opposition groups that it supports.
“Chaos in Syria provided an atmosphere so that terror organizations like Islamic State, al-Nusra, PYD and YPG could grow and spread”.
Oil bought from ISIS is sent to Turkey as the oil bought from Iraq and after arriving in Turkey, is emptied in silos, and in coordination with the Turkish Intelligence Service (MIT), sold at cheap prices on Mediterranean shores to European and Israeli consumers as northern Iraq oil.
He said the bomber had entered Turkey from the region in the summer of 2014.
Syria’s state-run news agency says Syrian President Bashar Assad has received a phone call from Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Syria has remained locked in a vicious civil war since early 2011, when the regime cracked down on pro-democracy protests with unexpected ferocity.
Turkey hosts some 2.6 million refugees from the five-year conflict, but is coming under growing pressure from the United States to secure the border more tightly because of the risk from militants travelling under the guise of seeking refuge, and, from Europe, to stem the onward flow of migrants.
“I’ve expressed concerns of the Syrian opposition”, Cavusoglu said, adding that the opposition groups will assess the draft and make a statement at a meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.