Turkey sends more armour to its volatile Syrian border
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Turkey has sent more tanks to its southern frontier with Syria on Thursday in light of the continuous Katyusha rocket attacks launched across it by the Islamic State (ISIS).
The new armor comes from the army's Fifth Armored Brigade whose tanks are deployed close together along the border of the Turkish province of Kilis, the site of ISIS bombardments in recent months which have killed scores of civilians, many of them women and child refugees fleeing the Syrian war.
These new tanks, Hurriyet news reports, will utilize their cannons and thermal cameras to prevent infiltration on the border and combat the continuous threat of ISIS there.
Turkey has invariably retaliated to ISIS rocket attacks on Kilis by using its long-range howitzer artillery guns to strike ISIS positions in Syria in lieu of airstrikes, given the possibility that their jet fighters will be shot down by the Russian expeditionary force in Syria.
A Turkish intelligence source cited by Hurriyet said that Ankara does not request supporting American-led coalition airstrikes south of the Kilis border "every time" ISIS launches rocket attacks.
"It is obvious that ISIL is a threat and [the] coalition should evaluate accordingly," the source said.
Furthermore Turkey's artillery retaliations are quite effective since they are done in coordination with drones which locate the exact positions of the mobile Katyusha launchers.
The new armor comes from the army's Fifth Armored Brigade whose tanks are deployed close together along the border of the Turkish province of Kilis, the site of ISIS bombardments in recent months which have killed scores of civilians, many of them women and child refugees fleeing the Syrian war.
These new tanks, Hurriyet news reports, will utilize their cannons and thermal cameras to prevent infiltration on the border and combat the continuous threat of ISIS there.
Turkey has invariably retaliated to ISIS rocket attacks on Kilis by using its long-range howitzer artillery guns to strike ISIS positions in Syria in lieu of airstrikes, given the possibility that their jet fighters will be shot down by the Russian expeditionary force in Syria.
A Turkish intelligence source cited by Hurriyet said that Ankara does not request supporting American-led coalition airstrikes south of the Kilis border "every time" ISIS launches rocket attacks.
"It is obvious that ISIL is a threat and [the] coalition should evaluate accordingly," the source said.
Furthermore Turkey's artillery retaliations are quite effective since they are done in coordination with drones which locate the exact positions of the mobile Katyusha launchers.