Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vows that Syria will pay a “heavy price” for any attack on Turkish troops, a day after five soldiers were killed in regime shelling in the Idlib region.
“The more they attack our soldiers, they will pay a very, very heavy price,” Erdogan tells a televised ceremony in Ankara.
Turkey responded on Monday with artillery fire on Syrian positions and said it had “neutralized” 101 Syrian regime soldiers after the killing of five Turks in Idlib — the last major rebel bastion.
The exchange was the second such clash in a week, after eight Turks were killed in regime fire last week, which again prompted a military response from Turkey.
“The regime… got what it deserved in Idlib,” Erdogan says. “But it is not enough.”
— AFP
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