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NEW — Turkey has hit 54 Assad regime positions and killed 76 regime soldiers, Turkish Defense Minister Akar says. Akar says that Turkey had informed Russian authorities on the Turkish reinforcements for two times on Sunday, 4:13pm and 22:27pm. Yet the regime still attacked

BREAKING — Death toll in regime attacks to Turkish units in Syria’s Idlib has increased to 8, Erdogan says. “Three civilians and five soldiers are martyred”

BREAKING — A million Syrian refugees are on the move to Turkish border in Idlib due to the regime attacks, Erdogan says

The military says it is still targeting Assad forces as part of “legitimate right of defence”. The military vows to avenge the death and injured, and respond to the future attacks in the strongest terms

BREAKING — Two additional Turkish soldiers died of wounds due to a Syrian regime attack in Idlib yesterday, Turkish Defense Ministry says. Death toll now is 6.

Turkish reliance on Russia: • Tourism: 7 million Russians visited Turkey, top of the chart • Nuclear cooperation: Akkuyu nuclear reactor built by Russians • Turkish stream pipeline • Turkish exports reaching to $3 billion • Turkey imports 40% of its gas from Russia

Russian Ministry of Defense: Russian and Turkish military are in contact, and evacuation measures for wounded Turkish citizens have been coordinated

NEW — Russia says Turkey didn’t inform Moscow about the movement of its troops in Idlib and that’s why Turkish soldiers were targeted. It also says Turkish aircraft didn’t breach Syrian airspace and no Turkish airstrike was registered — Sputnik

Erdogan says Turkish defense and foreign ministers along with intel chief will talk to their Russian counterparts about the incident. “If needed, I will call [Putin] and point out the seriousness of this issue. Russian and Turkish generals in Idlib coordinate the current op”

Erdogan now says as of 6:15am local time, Turkey hit 46 Syrian regime targets by 122 rounds of howitzer and 100 rounds of mortar fires

NEW — Turkey hit 40 Syrian regime targets and killed 30-35 regime fighters, Erdogan says. “Our artillery and F-16s continue to retaliate”, he says in response to the killing of 4 Turkish soldiers in Idlib. “We told Russians that they aren’t the targets”

NEW — Two senior Erdoğan aides, Altun and Kalin, vow that Turkey will avenge the killing of Turkish soldiers by Syrian regime. “Our state will make [those responsible] pay for this heinous attack”, Altun says

NEW — Heavy Syrian artillery has killed 4 Turkish soldiers, wounded 9 others in Idlib, Turkish Defense Ministry says. 1 soldier’s state is critical. Turkey retaliated, damaged regime positions. “Reinforcement units were coordinated prior to their deployment [with Russians]”

If the fight in Idlib gets out of control and Turkey goes after Russia, would so-called NATO allies back Ankara? Since 2016, there has been a habit to criticise Turkey for its partnership with Russia. If that ends, would EU countries and the US show solidarity? Hmm No.

Greatest Middle East joke of the yearhttps://twitter.com/NeriZilber/status/1223661691558297600…

Türkiye’de olduğu kadar İngilizce konuşamayan ama konuşamadığı halde de herkese İngilizce gramer, konuşma ve aksan dersi veren başka bir halk var mıdır acaba? İngilizce bir tweette yanlış yapsam, hiçbir Amerikalı uyarmaz. Ama altta Türkler başlar konuşmaya.

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