DAMASCUS, Mar 17 (NNN-SANA) – A total of 4,440 Turkish military vehicles and 9,450 Turkish soldiers, have been sent to Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib since Feb, a war monitor reported.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, 60 vehicles and tanks entered areas in Idlib on Monday alone.
The Britain-based watchdog group said, the Turkish military gears and soldiers are deployed in Turkish observation points in Idlib, as part of the deescalation zones’ deal, established with Russia two years ago.
The recent entry comes, in the wake of the recent cease-fire that was agreed upon by Turkey and Russia earlier this month.
The observatory said that 1,040 Turkish vehicles and hundreds of soldiers have entered Idlib, since the cease-fire deal was established on Mar 5.
According to the new Russian-Turkish understandings, the M4 highway linking the northwestern province of Latakia with the northern province of Aleppo was supposed to be open.
However, pro-rebel people, on Monday, cut off the road and prevented a joint Turkish-Russian patrol from passing.
The rebels detonated a bridge on the M4 highway and were forcing people to set up tents on the road, to prevent the joint patrols from passing.– NNN-SANA
