On the border with Turkey, Syria Kessab Armenian-inhabited town in the centuries after the attack on the El Nusr major wounds received as a result of the clashes are said.
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Antioch Yayladağı at noon in the Syrian side of the border in a Syrian fighter planes shot down. Chief of Staff, on the website gave a statement about this incident. According to this explanation, Syria started two MIG-23 aircraft, Syrian airspace north on the right flight at noon, followed began, Turkey airspace approach after being alerted, and an airplane this warning to obey and boundary violations do on the hour 13:14 ‘te, belonging to Turkey by an F-16 was shot down.
Prime Minister Erdogan, today’s rallies on the issue, as “particularly the Chief of Staff, including air force” congratulated, Hatay Governor Mehmet Celalettin spotless, Syrian aircraft, Syria’s Kessab town on the western side drops said. Towards the border with Turkey on the border of Syria Kessab air on March 21 against the attacking troops off El Nusr is estimated.
With this event, once again came to the fore Kessab, already under attack 48 hours. civilnet According to the report, the border by Turkey El Nusr facade depends on foreign troops to the town, attacked the then Syrian regime troops attached to these forces clashed on most Armenians that town residents leave town to have been forced. By land and sea, while the knowledge that there are going to Latakiya, precise information about casualties and no casualties. According to the information given by the Anatolia News Agency, at least 15 wounded in ambulances brought to Antioch, were being treated in various hospitals. One of the injured, lost their lives.
civilnet speaking to the elders of the town, as of March 23 states that are completely emptied of villages and attacks result in the destruction of the town “no longer Kessab” were the words said. The first of the attacks, on the morning of March 21, which is a part of Kessab loved Aghby began in the village. According to eyewitnesses, an armed group crossed the border of Turkey, conquered the hills surrounding the village and then attacked the village. Kessab of the attacks spread to all of the area on the seafront on the seizure, regime troops have intervened in the region by land and air.
El Nusra this attack, a region on the seafront, allegedly to seize. This event on Syria’s UN Ambassador Bashar Jaafari, the NATO Security Council and the Secretary-General addressed to the President by writing a letter, has accused Turkey of supporting international terrorism. Establishment of the Cooperation Council for the Armenians of France (CCAF) also issued a letter, because Turkey is responsible for this attack, while another of the government of Turkey and the Syrian regime to terminate this attack wanted to help.
Kessab known as settlement of Armenians for centuries, before the start of the civil war in the country, was one of the popular holiday resorts of Armenians in Syria. Town during the war, the Armenians who fled from Damascus and Aleppo has been a settlement for the safe. In 1939, Turkey joined the poll result Kessab located within the boundaries of Hatay, Turkey to attend nine months had resisted and Cardinal Krikor Aghajanian as a result of the request of Pius XII. Through the intervention of Pius remained within the borders of Syria.