Syria–Turkey relations

Two formations of four Turkish fighter jets violated Greece's airspace twice and infringed on the Athens Flight Information Region on Thursday, the Hellenic National Defence General Staff (HNDGS) said.

The two Turkish F-16 and two F-4 jets entered national airspace in the northeastern and southeastern Aegean.

Turkish army drones have captured videos of People’s Protection Units (YPG) attacks on the Turkish border provinces of Hatay and Kilis from western Afrin in Syria.

Turkey has asked Moscow to arrest and extradite Mihrac Ural, the leader of the outlawed People’s Liberation Party-Front (THKP-C), which Turkey has deemed responsible for a deadly attack in the southern province of Hatay in 2013. Ural was seen unexpectedly among participants at the Syria congress in Sochi, Russia this week.

Two more rockets fired from Syria have killed a 17-year-old girl, after hitting the Reyhanlı district of Turkey’s Hatay border province on Jan. 31. 

The ongoing military operation in Syria’s north by the Turkish military may speed up the return of Syrian migrants in Turkey to their home country, according to the mayor of Gaziantep, a Turkish province of the Syrian border that is now home to hundreds of thousands of Syrians.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited a military command center in the southern province of Hatay on Jan. 25 as Turkey’s ongoing “Operation Olive Branch” in northern Syria entered its sixth day, according to a presidential source.

A high-level United States delegation on Jan. 23 discussed a number of issues, including Syria, with Turkish officials, according to a Turkish diplomatic source.

The United Kingdom has once again urged its citizens to avoid Turkish-Syrian border areas during their travels in Turkey, Doğan News Agency reported on Jan. 15.

A minibus carrying migrants has crashed into a truck in the Altınözü district of the southern province of Hatay, killing 10 inside, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Turkey dispatched 180 commandos to the Syrian city of Al-Bab on Nov. 30, the military stated.