Turkey completes construction of partition wall in Latakia
Latakia- North-Press Agency
Turkey completed construction of the cement wall between the northern Latakia countryside and Iskenderun, a project it started about three years ago along the Syrian-Turkish border.
In a video, North-Press Agency documented Turkish vehicles digging last week in order to complete the construction of the cement wall in Kasab town in the northern Latakia countryside.
According to political analyst Ghasan Yousef, “Turkey completed about 711 km of the wall. The Turkish-Syrian border is 911 km long. This is a clear and explicit violation and cuts off land from Syria.”
Yousef told North-Press that Turkey is using the wall to prevent the infiltration of "terrorists" into its lands while it is arming and training groups in Idlib.
He added, "Turkey, by building the wall, places Syrians in the border areas, whether in Idlib or northern Aleppo, Latakia, or Raqqa, under its control, so that they can enter Turkey only by decision of the country when it decides to open its borders.”
Turkey fears the return of hundreds of militants from Central Asia, Chechnya, Libya, Germany, and Arab countries, whom they trained in Idlib, to Turkey. Therefore, this wall is completed and built up to the sea in case of this.”
Yousef sees that Turkey is trying to "establish a jail for its supporters, and not for its enemies, to take control of them. On the other hand, it fears that they will turn against them, so it sent a group of mercenaries to Libya and may transfer them to other countries to carry out their ambitions.”
The political analyst confirms that Turkey's fears reveal the unstable internal situation and that it suffers from confusion in its domestic and foreign relations.
The wall is three meters high, and two meters of barbed wire starts from Rabia town in the northern Latakia countryside, passing by al-Aqra Mountain, where in 2018 Turkey built the largest military base overlooking the city of Latakia and its villages, reaching the shore of Asammra in Kasab town .
The project is part of a Turkish scheme since 2015 aimed to build a partition wall along the Syrian-Turkish border, along with complaints of Syrian farmers about thousands of hectares being cut along the border.