5 minutes agoTurkey builds security walls on Syria border
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Turkey has completed construction of the 764km-long concrete wall on the Syrian border. A Turkish official confirmed the news Saturday. T OKI, the state-owned construction company, built the 564km wall, while Turkish border province administrations built 200 kilometers, a government official who wanted to remain anonymous, stressed for AA. Ankara [...]
TOKI, the state-owned construction company, built the 564km wall, while Turkish border province administrations built 200km, a government official who wanted to remain anonymous, stressed the AA.
Ankara launched the 826km wall construction project along the Syrian border in 2015. The project's goal is to boost border security, as well as reinforce the fight against trafficking and illegal passage, the Anadolu Agency reports.
The border between Turkey and Syria, in which civil war lasts from 2011, is a total of 91 km.
The wall has ended along the border in the provinces ãonalıurfa, Gaziantep, Chile, Hatay, Mardin and ırnak.
The official added that eventually there are works on the 144km-long security wall on the border with Iraq.
