Syrian–Turkish border clashes during the Syrian civil war
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As the civil uprising phase of the Syrian Civil War turned into an all-out civil war, the 911-kilometre-long (600 mi) Syria–Turkey border[3] became the scene of minor military clashes between the Turkish Army and various factions in the war to the south.
Syrian–Turkish border clashes during the Syrian Civil War | |||||||
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Part of Syrian civil war | |||||||
Locations in Turkey attacked by Syria | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Syria | Turkey | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Bashar al-Assad Ali Abdullah Ayyoub Ali Mahmoud Abbas |
Abdullah Gül Recep Erdogan Necdet Özel | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
12 soldiers killed[1] 23 soldiers wounded (Syrian opposition claim)[2] | 5 civilians killed |
One of the most serious of these occurred on 3 October 2012, when an artillery shell fired from Syria by the Syrian Army killed five and injured at least ten Turkish citizens in the border town of Akçakale in Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Turkish Armed Forces artillery units conducted saturation shelling of Syrian military posts.[4][5][6]
Since the beginning of the Turkish occupation of northern Syria in 2016, Turkey now controls much of the border region inside Syria, mostly taken from the Syrian Democratic Forces.