Turkey sends more reinforcements to Syria’s Idlib
IDLIB, Syria (North Press) – On Sunday evening, a huge Turkish military convoy entered the de-escalation zone in northwest Syria.
“A Turkish convoy, consisting of more than 100 military and logistical vehicles, entered the Syrian territory through the Kafr Lossin border crossing, and headed to the Turkish points in Zawiya Mountain, south of Idlib,” eyewitnesses told North Press.
According to some Press reports, there are about 13,000 Turkish soldiers, as well as 9,000 Turkish military vehicles, in northwest Syria.
The convoy included armored vehicles and trucks carrying ammunition, logistical materials, cement blocks, and dozens of members, according to witnesses.
The Turkish forces have continued sending more military reinforcements to Idlib, since the beginning of this year, coinciding with the military escalation between the forces of Syrian government and Russia forces on one hand, and the Turkish-backed armed factions on the other.
On October 22, the Turkish forces sent military reinforcements, described as huge, to their bases deployed in more than 70 military points, most of them in the Zawiya Mountain area.
Since its military interference in Syria, the Turkish forces have established more than 70 military points in the areas of Idlib, Aleppo, Hama and Latakia, northwest Syria.
For months, areas in Syria’s northwest have been witnessing mutual shelling between parties to the conflict in different areas amid news on government military reinforcements to different areas in the region.
Although the de-escalation zone in northwest Syria is subject to a Russian-Turkish ceasefire agreement signed in March 2020, the area witnesses frequent mutual bombardment despite the entry of the ceasefire into force.