Turkey Strikes Syria After Syrian Mortars Kill 5 Civilians in Turkish Town

Smoke rises over the streets after an mortar bomb landed from Syria in the border village of Akcakale, southeastern Sanliurfa province, October 3, 2012.

 

VOA News

October 03, 2012 

Turkey says its armed forces have fired on targets inside Syria in retaliation for a Syrian mortar attack that killed five Turkish civilians in a Turkish border town.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office said Turkish forces responded "immediately" by using  radar to shell the sources of the Syrian mortar fire.

Erdogan said Ankara acted within international law and will never fail to retaliate for what he called Syrian provocations against Turkey's national security.

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