Turkish military intervention in Syria

A U.S.-led programme to train Syrian rebels to fight Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants will start in May, Turkey's Defence Minister ?smet Y?lmaz was quoted as saying by the state-run Anadolu news agency on March 31.
   

Turkish Chief of Staff Gen. Necdet Özel, along with other top commanders, visited the newly constructed Süleyman ?ah Tomb in its new located inside Syria on March 26.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)  has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks across Syria that left dead dozens of people, in an announcement on its radio station.
      

Turkish and American diplomats on March 14 vowed to fight international threats together, as they spoke at the 35th Annual Convention of the Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA) in Washington.

Ambassadors from both countries said the relationship between the two nations has never been more important than it is today.

U.K. Ambassador to Turkey Richard Moore has stressed the ongoing close cooperation between his country and Turkey, upon Ankara?s announcement that a spy who worked for a country in the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) helped three British girls cross into Syria to join the militants and has been caught.

The curious reader asked: ?If Russia said, ?We don?t like the location of our U.S. embassy ? the area is too dangerous? and they sent out 500 troops to seize a piece of land in a better area of Washington, what would the world call this?

Turkey did not contact the armed wing of the Syrian Kurds' Democratic Union Party (PYD) or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) prior to the evacuation operation of its troops from an historic Ottoman tomb inside Syria, a spokesperson for the presidency has said, reiterating the country still regards the PYD as a terrorist organization.