[guide.chat] syria sets turkey forest on fire
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- Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 09:35:00 +0100
Turkish firefighters battle blazes 'deliberately started' on Syria border
State television in Turkey says Syrian forces are believed to have started
fires to deny shelter to rebels
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 4 July 2012 17.37 BST
Turkish soldiers patrol the border with Syria in the town of Reyhanli.
Photograph: Osman Orsal/Reuters
Turkish firefighters are battling blazes along the border with Syria in areas
where thousands of Syrians have crossed to flee the fighting in their country.
Mehmet Harbi, a forestry official, claimed the fires were "deliberately
started" at four different points on the Syrian side of the border and spread
to Turkey because of strong winds. Turkey's state-run TRT television said
Syrian forces were believed to have started the fires to deny shelter to rebels
along the border area. Harbi and TRT provided no evidence to substantiate their
claims.
More than 35,000 Syrians are living in refugee camps on the Turkish side of the
border that were opened to care for the many people fleeing Syria's unrest.
Sporadic clashes between Syrian forces and activists also have occurred on the
Syrian side of the border.
The uprising began in March 2011, and Syrian activists say it has killed about
14,000 people.
A Turkish helicopter also was fighting Wednesday's blazes, and an Associated
Press reporter in the border town of Yayladagi said loudspeakers were used to
call all males between the ages of 15 and 55 to help fight the fires.
In another development on Wednesday, Turkey's military said the bodies of two
pilots whose jet was shot down by Syria had been found in the eastern
Mediterranean Sea. TRT television said a US deep-sea exploration vessel, E/V
Nautilus, had discovered the bodies on Wednesday.
Syrian forces shot down the RF-4 plane on 22 June. Turkey says it was hit in
international airspace, while Syria insists it had flown inside Syrian airspace.
Syria did not offer an apology, and the downing of the plane has worsened
already tense Turkish-Syrian relations.
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