Turkey is in mourning. Last week, in a small village in the province of Idlib, in northern Syria, a Turkish military convoy was targeted by several Russian and Syrian regime planes in a coordinated attack that lasted hours. Ambulances were hit and medevac helicopters were prevented from evacuating Turkish casualties because Russia controls the air space. We lost more than 30 young men.
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Turkish minister of Family, Labor and Social Services Zehra Zumrut Selcuk (4L) comforts the mother (C) of slain Turkish soldier Halil Cankaya, who was killed in an airstrike in the Syrian town of Idlib, during the funeral ceremony in Ankara, Turkey, on March 1, 2020. - Turkish forces downed two Syrian war planes over northwest Syria on March 1, 2020, a war monitor said, after Ankara announced a cross-border military operation there. The downings come after Turkey announced a military operation in northwest Syria after regime air strikes on February 27 killed over 30 Turkish soldiers.
