Turkish Army Kirpi MRAP on duty somewhere in southern Turkey.
Two Turkish soldiers were killed and two others were wounded in an attack on an armored vehicle in northern Syria.
Turkish MRAP Kirpi was targeted with a guided missile on its way to a military base in the vicinity of the town of al-Bab, northern Aleppo province.
“In an attack carried out by terrorists against our Kirpi vehicle in the Operation Euphrates Shield zone, two of our fellow hero soldiers were martyred and two of our friends were injured,” the Ministry of National Defense said on Twitter.
The ministry said that Turkish forces had immediately launched retaliatory fire.
“Our punitive fire against terrorist positions is continuing,” the statement reads.
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Kurdish forces, who have recently increased a number of their attacks on Turkish forces, may be behind the strike.
Turkey launched the operation Euphrates Shield in 2016 to drive away ISIS fighters and the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG).
Turkish forces and Turkish-backed militants are targeted by Kurdish militants on a regular basis. For example, ALF released videos of three recent attacks on Turkish forces in the northern countryside of Syria’s Aleppo.
Turkish forces occupy much of the northern Aleppo countryside. The situation in the region is far from being stable. The killing of Turkish soldiers will certainly lead to a new escalation.
Turkish convoys are attacked both in Syria and Iraq. On July 17, a Turkish military convoy came under attack while it was passing in Zilkan in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh.
In any civilized country that values human rights and has principles these daily Turkish casualties for a delusional neo-Ottoman empire fantasy would have brought down the corrupt Erdogan government propped by Qatari, UAE and Saudi money a long time ago. These demoralized occupation Turkeys are being sacrificed on the alter of pervert Erdogan’s ago and for his Zionist masters. He recently called the new Zionist PM and promised closer military and economic cooperation. Turkey like the Jews is an eternal enemy of the Arabs. The Ottoman savages were as barbaric and crude as their Zionist masters and killed millions of Arabs, Shia Alevi, Christians and Armenians in the only real holocaust.
Turkey is basically colluding with the Zionists in a mistaken belief that Arabs, especially the tenacious Shia will agree to an occupation of their ancient lands in Syria or Iraq is simply insane. The Turks are suffering almost daily casualties and the Anatolian peasant villages that supply the cannon fodder are getting restless with the corrupt megalomaniac Erdogan shedding their children’s blood while his son Bilal and family profit from oil theft and partnership with ISIS. Turkey is basically bankrupt and the military pressure and casualties are bound to increase. Turkey despite its propaganda is a very weak fragmented failing state at war with 50% of its Kurd, Christian and Alevi Shia population.
the western turks ar actually Greeks that send the eastern turks to slaughter..the “real” turks.
… BUT THEY (PLURAL OF ‘IT’) ARE NOT HUMAN BEINGS! ONLY UNHUMAN GENOCIDALS TO BE SWEPT AWAY FOR SAKE AND PEACE OF MIDDLE EAST AND MANKIND!
The turks trying to play all sides. What a fkn joke…