15 March 2014
Source: Middle East Monitor
Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said in a press conference on Friday
that Turkey will intervene to protect a historic Ottoman period shrine
in Syria if it is attacked by either side of the conflict. The shrine
commemorates the grandfather of the founder of the Ottoman Empire.
The Suleyman Shah Shrine is located 25 km away from the Turkish
border in the Syrian province of Aleppo. It was designated as Turkish
territory in a post-World War One agreement between Turkey and France
signed in 1921.
According to Davutoğlu, the 25 Turkish soldiers protecting the
shrine are on high alert after warnings by the militant ISIS group that
it will attack the site. "Turkey will respond to whoever attacks the
shrine, be it the Syrian regime or extremist groups," he told reporters,
"including ISIS."
Link: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/10314-turkey-will-intervene-if-ottoman-shrine-is-attacked-in-syria.
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