Syrian shell lands in southern Turkey
No injuries reported; Turkish military returns fire
Ilan Ben Zion is an AFP reporter and a former news editor at The Times of Israel.
A mortar shell fired from Syria on Friday landed in the southern Turkish region of Hatay, causing no injuries, Turkish state media reported.
The mortar landed near the border town of Yayladağı, just yards from the Syrian frontier. Hatay Governor Celalettin Lekesiz told the Turkish Anadolu news agency that the Turkish military responded with artillery fire. No Syrian casualties were reported.
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Friday’s flare up was the third consecutive day of cross-border fire by the Turkish military after a Syrian artillery shell killed five Turkish citizens in the border town of Akçakale on Wednesday. The Turkish parliament on Thursday approved military intervention in Syria in response to hostilities.
