Hurriyet: Military build ups at the Turkish borders
Iraq-Turkey, Politics, 2/17/2003

The Turkish daily Hurriyet said yesterday that the military build ups in the border cities to the southern East of Turkey have been witnessing great increase, noting that great number of trucks loaded by tanks and armored vehicles are transported daily from the area to the Iraqi borders.

The paper indicated that hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles are arriving at the parking center at the leadership of the 20th armored vehicle forces, which is situated on the land route between the two Turkish cities of Orfa and Deyar Baker where they are stationed before transportation to the border areas.

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