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Turkey completes 556-Km border wall with Syria (4-11-17)
Gulf Times ^ | 4-11-17 | Dpa/Istanbul

Posted on 08/18/2017 5:44:48 PM PDT by dynachrome

Turkey has completed a 556-kilometre wall along its border with Syria, the Defence Ministry said on Tuesday on its Twitter feed.

The wall was designed as a security measure and is made of concrete blocks. Photos from the ministry show the tops of the blocks are covered in barbed wire and there are guard towers placed at intervals.

The project was done in cooperation with TOKI, the state-run public housing body. The body said the wall is about three metres high.

The full length of the border is 911 kilometres.

In the first years of the Syrian civil war, fighters, including many who joined jihadist organizations such as Islamic State, were able to cross the porous border into Syria.

Islamic State has since been driven away from the border by a Turkish land operation inside Syria.

Turkey remains concerned by Kurdish authorities who control most of the border on the Syrian side, though these forces work with the United States in the war against Islamic State.

(Excerpt) Read more at gulf-times.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: border; syria; turkey; wall
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1 posted on 08/18/2017 5:44:48 PM PDT by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

I saw 4 turkeys in a field this morning.


2 posted on 08/18/2017 5:46:16 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: dynachrome

Walls, fences work everywhere, just not on our southern border.


3 posted on 08/18/2017 5:47:49 PM PDT by Fungi (Haptoglossa mirabilis is a beautiful fungus.)
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To: virgil

Wild turkeys used to walk down the alley behind my house. They disappeared during hunting season. Some sort of sense they had. haha.


4 posted on 08/18/2017 5:48:01 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: dynachrome
Turkey has completed a 556-kilometre wall along its border with Syria, the Defence Ministry said on Tuesday on its Twitter feed.

Isn't that kind of racist? 😀😆😄

5 posted on 08/18/2017 5:54:34 PM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: dynachrome

Which way is the barbwire directed? Erdogan can only stay in power with great repression.


6 posted on 08/18/2017 6:12:36 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: dynachrome

“Fences make good neighbors”


7 posted on 08/18/2017 6:25:46 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (There is room at the table for all of God's creatures, right next to the mashed potatoes.)
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8 posted on 08/18/2017 7:04:14 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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