Turkic tribes

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has hosted delegations from the Bay?rbucak Turkmens and the Syrian Turkmen Assembly in separate meetings, while the United Nations' special envoy for Syria also paid a brief visit to the Turkish capital.

Moscow on Dec. 30 called for Ankara to arrest a rebel who it claims killed the pilot of the Russian jet downed by Turkey last month on the Syrian border.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an said Russian President Vladimir Putin does not tell the truth over Turkey not sharing intelligence about Turkmens in Syria before Russia started conducting airstrikes in the country.

Turkmen forces in northwestern Syria have seized back control of K?z?lda? Hill on Jabal al-Turkmen (Turkmen Mountain) while also pushing back military units affiliated to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, capturing two tanks in the process.

Turkmen regions in Syria's northwest are continuing to come under heavy attack by Russian-backed Syrian forces as government forces have taken back the K?z?lda? area that is home to Turkmens.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces have intensified the shelling of K?z?lda?, a strategic point in northwestern Syria controlled by Turkmen forces, daily Hürriyet has reported.

Regime forces had made significant progress around Turkmen Mountain and its environs during clashes over the last 12 days before eventually facing Turkmen resistance just in front of the Turkish border.

As Turkey has called for a U.N. Security Council meeting to discuss attacks on Turkmens in neighboring Syria, local Turkmens and the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad started fighting each other on Nov. 23 to secure control of a hill close to the Turkmen-dominated Bay?rbucak region in northwestern Syria. 

As the Russian bombardment to defend Bashar-al Assad's forces heats up in the Turkmen-dominated Bay?rbucak region in northwest Syria, waves of locals have flooded to safe zones close to the Turkish border.