Turkey continues to
carry out construction works at the borders with Syria in northern latakia in
what can be viewed as a unilateral demarcation of borders.
Heavy machineries,
trucks and bulldozers were spotted digging up grooves in order to erect a wall
all the way to the maritime point separating the two countries i.e. al-Samra
village on the Mediterranean.
Turkey has deployed
12 observation outposts in northern Syria to monitor the de-escalation zone
agreement as per Astana talks with the other guarantor states; Russia and Iran.
The Turkish
government has been involved in supporting militants fighting Syrian President
Bashar Assad since the outbreak of the uprising in 2011.
According to Anadolu
Agency, Syrian rebels finished withdrawing all their heavy weapons from the
front lines in the northwestern province of Idlib on Monday.
This comes as part of
a deal reached between Russia and Turkey to demilitarize the front lines
between Syrian government forces and the opposition in and around the province.
Naji al-Mustafa,
spokesman for the National Front for Liberation, a Turkish-backed umbrella
group, said Sunday the alliance had unanimously agreed to implement the deal
reached last month and expected to demilitarize 15-20 kilometers (9-12 miles)
along the front lines by Oct. 15.
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