Turkish and Israeli missiles near Turkish- Syrian border
Syria-Turkey, Politics, 7/14/2001

The Paris - based al-Muharrir news weekly issued on Friday quoted a high ranking source at the Kurdistani national federation party led by Jalal al-Talibani from Paris as saying that several intermediate and long range ground- to ground missiles launching bases on the Turkish- Syrian borders have been installed, expecting the eruption of a limited war between Syria and Isreal and its sparks starting from South Lebanon.

The Kurdish source added that tens of Israeli military men are taking part with hundreds of Turkish military men supervision of these bases that many of them can be seen from inside the Turkish territories near the Iraqi, Turkish and Syrian border triangle.

He added that his party received information saying that the number of Israeli and Turkish batteries deployed in that area exceeds 20. Most of them gathered in the central and coastal area separating between Syria and Turkey.

Moreover, information by certain western circles in Ankara reported that Jewish establishments and individuals are buying lands of the current border areas between Syria and Turkey and the objective behind these buying operation is still unclear.

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