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In addition to the military fatalities: one Turkish civilian worker was killed in the area of Operation Olive Branch, [7] two Turkish civilian contractors were killed during operations in the Idlib Governorate [8] [9] and two Turkish civilian drivers were killed in the area of Operation Peace Spring, following the operation's conclusion.
Initially, Turkey condemned the Syrian government at the outbreak of civil unrest in Syria during the spring of 2011; [154] the Turkish government's involvement gradually evolved into military assistance for the Free Syrian Army in July 2011, [155] border clashes in 2012, [156] and direct military interventions in 2016–17, [157] [158] [159 ...
Syrian civil war; Part of the First Arab Spring, the Arab Winter, the Second Arab Spring, the Iraqi civil war, the war against the Islamic State, the war on terror, the Kurdish–Turkish and Arab–Israeli conflicts; and the Iran–Turkey, Iran–Israel, Iran–Saudi, Qatar–Saudi and Russia–U.S. proxy wars
Doctors and medical staff treating injured rebel fighters and civilians in Aleppo. Estimates of the total number of deaths in the Syrian Civil War, by various war monitors, range between 580,000 as of May 2021, [1] and approximately 617,910 as of March 2024. [2]
The Turkish Armed Forces and its ally the Syrian National Army have occupied [7] [8] areas of northern Syria since August 2016, during the Syrian civil war.Though these areas nominally acknowledge a government affiliated with the Syrian opposition, in practice they constitute a separate proto-state [9] under the dual authority of decentralized native local councils and Turkish military ...
About 1.2 million Austrians served in all branches of the German armed forces during World War II. After the defeat of the Axis Powers, the Allies occupied Austria in four occupation zones set up at the end of World War II until 1955, when the country again became a fully independent republic under the condition that it remained neutral.
The government of Turkey, a NATO member with the alliance's second largest army, has had a relatively friendly relationship with Syria over a decade prior to the start of the civil unrest in Syria in 2011; Turkey, while joining calls for the Syrian government to end the violence, [146] initially objected to the demand voiced in August 2011 by ...
In the early hours of 14 January 2013, a shell fired by unknown Syrian forces landed in an olive grove near the border village of Akçabağlar, causing no casualties. [38] On 30 January, Syrian refugees tried to cross the border between Turkey and Syria but were turned back under fire by Turkish forces.