Turkish-Syrian border | World's third longest man-made wall

[KediKesenFare3]

• will cover all 911 km of the Syrian border
• 7/24 coverage
• concrete walls
• watch towers
• asphalt road
• barbed wire
• lighting systems
• border units
• UAV's
• surveillance blimps
• will cost 2 Billion Turkish Lira

“When we say border, there is no road or anything there. As TOKİ, we open the roads. The job is not easy, we are working on mined fields,” Turan said, adding that Turkey was in a special situation as there were few countries in the world which shared a 900-kilometer-long border with a single country.​

The concrete blocks, which are 2 meters wide, 3 meters high and weigh 7 tons, are being installed on the border.

The first step was to build a 900 km long concrete wall all along the Syrian border. Construction will be finished in April/May 2017.

Parts of the border are already completed and closely guarded.​

Dubbed the "Turkish Wall" by local media drawing comparisons to the Great Wall of China, the concrete blocks that straddle the 900-kilometer (559-mile) long border will be manned by troops.

Military sources say the wall has already significantly curbed smuggling and "irregular crossings." In an area covering Gaziantep and Kilis, two Turkish cities used as major gateways into Turkey by smugglers from Syria, only 76 cases of smuggling were detected in 2016 while it was 2,044 in 2015.

The wall is being built behind minefields, deep ditches and is reinforced with barbed wire and steel fences. On watch towers along the border wall, soldiers monitor the security while armored military vehicles patrol around the clock.

As a direct consequence, the number of people trying to join terrorist groups like ISIS & PKK/PYD dropped by seven times compared to 2015.
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http://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/20...urkey-extends-its-great-wall-on-syrian-border

Great job and well done.

 

[YeBeWarned]

Brilliant .. but Turkey need more Attack Helicopters and Armed Drones on border ..

 

[KediKesenFare3]

 

[xenon54 out]

Better late than never.

 

[KediKesenFare3]

Better late than never.

Exactly.

 

[KediKesenFare3]

Turkey reduces smuggling incidents on the Turkish-Syrian border

Smuggling incidents on the Turkish-Syrian border reduced

Security sources have said that the border has been completely closed off, and smugglers are being deterred by radars, cameras and lights.

Smuggling activity has been reduced significantly, and the border between Turkey and Syria can no longer be crossed easily.

“There are known names that we are questioning. Turkey has a list of names that we gather. Hopefully from now on these sorts of businesses won't function. Our efforts are to protect Turkey. The state of Syria and Iraq is out in the open. We don't want the same thing to happen to Turkey,” said a Syrian Turkmen in the region.

Concrete wall put up between Azaz and Jarablus, Syria

A concrete wall has been erected for 77 of the 105 kilometers between Azaz and Jarablus, an area which has been cleared of terrorists. The wall features razor wire and cage wire, and watch towers as it will be under 24 hour surveillance. Night lighting was also installed.

There are still 28 kilometers of construction left for the wall, which is referred to as the “Turkish berm wall”, to be completed.

The wall is expected to be completed in approximately two to three months.

http://www.yenisafak.com/en/world/t...ncidents-on-the-turkish-syrian-border-2593096

 

[Kuwaiti Girl]

I guess Turkey has privately conceded that there's going to be a permanent Kurdish presence in northern Syria.

 

[blackeyes90]

I guess Turkey has privately conceded that there's going to be a permanent Kurdish presence in northern Syria.

why did you say that ?

 

[EgyptianAmerican]

I guess Turkey has privately conceded that there's going to be a permanent Kurdish presence in northern Syria.

What does this have to do with the Kurds?

 

[KediKesenFare3]

Don't feed the troll, please.

 

[lastofthepatriots]

Walls are great and everything, but Turkey should instead use its soft power and influence in the region. You can keep cutting body parts affected by cancer, but that is only temporary. You have to get in and surgically remove the tumor once and for all.

 

[EgyptianAmerican]

@KediKesenFare

Your wall needs more automated machine guns.

Walls are great and everything, but Turkey should instead use its soft power and influence the region. You can keep cutting body parts affected by cancer, but that is only temporary. You have to get in and surgically remove the tumor once and for all.

Or you could let the person die, who cares out this point. The Turks should continue to take care of the country inside.

Let's be honest here, Syria is a lost cause.

 

[lastofthepatriots]

@KediKesenFare

Your wall needs more automated machine guns.




Or you could let the person die, who cares out this point. The Turks should continue to take care of the country inside.

Let's be honest here, Syria is a lost cause.

I think the Turks could steamroll Syria tbh. All the people that give Erdogan the title of Sultan are not in their right minds. He is a bold leader, but not of the military mindset. Erdogan is no Neo-Ottoman.

 

[EgyptianAmerican]

I think the Turks could steamroll Syria tbh. All the people that give Erdogan the title of Sultan are not in their right minds. He is a bold leader, but not of the military mindset. Erdogan is no Neo-Ottoman.

Most likely but that would only get them in trouble. Syrians are a lost cause. Throw them to the wind, they have made clear their wish for an autocratic apartheid alawite dictatorship. That is their choice.

 

[lastofthepatriots]

Most likely but that would only get them in trouble. Syrians are a lost cause. Throw them to the wind, they have made clear their wish for an autocratic apartheid alawite dictatorship. That is their choice.

Turkey should wait for the opportune moment. Let the bigger powers exhaust themselves, and go for the kill after. Start annexing strategic regions. Provide them a power base and start a low intensity conflict with PKK PJAK and other Kurdish terrorist organizations to keep them on the backfoot, while offering amnesty to any that surrender.


But perhaps I'm too much of an arm chair general.