Alwaght- Turkey has annexed more than 65 hectors of Syrian soli and uprooted 5690 olive trees while constructing border wall, Hawar News reported.
The Turkish forces entered Syrian land 250 km and uprooted 5500 olive trees, the local news website reported adding 90 trees in Kurda village and 100 trees in Deir Baloot village were uprooted.
Hawar also Accused Turkish army of torching fields of Midan Akbas village which caused burning a number of olive trees that belong to the people of the village.
The website also blamed Turkish forces for occupying Syrian lands along Turkish borders with depth of 350 m, and length of 3 km. the Turkish army also occupied 60 hectors from Deir Baloot lands in addition to threatening people of the village of killing as they approached the lands aligning to the border, Hawar reported.
Turkey Seeks to Annex Syrian Soil as Bid to Establish Vast Empire
Richard Hayden Black, member of the Virginia state Senate , believes that Turkish new-Ottomanist leaders seek to annex northern Syria as their first step to establish a vast empire that stretches from Europe onto China.
Turkish government, led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, seeks to “to absorb northern Syria into the greater Turkey,” Hayden Black told Press TV.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Ankara-backed militants will advance toward the northern Syrian town of Manbij in Aleppo province after they accomplish their mission in al-Bab city in the same province. Meanwhile, Syria has strongly denounced Ankara’s attacks near al-Bab.
Turkey uses terrorist groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda to carry out ethnic cleansing in northern Syria and pave the ground for Ankara's dominance there, the American senator told Press TV on Tuesday.
According to Hayden Black, “The group ISIS is sort of a tool of Turkey, of the United States, [and] of all of these groups (US allies). They don’t want [Syria] to eventually survive, because Erdogan sees himself as the head of a vast caliphate, [and] as [the head of] a resurgent Ottoman Empire that stretches from Europe onto China.”
“Turkey has been the greatest ally of the ISIS throughout most of the six-year war” in Syria, he said, adding that the terrorist group had 2,000 oil tankers, which carried massive amounts of oil stolen from Syria and took it to Turkey.
Back in August, Turkish Special Forces, tanks and jets, backed by planes from the US-led coalition, launched their first coordinated offensive in Syria in an alleged bid to battle terror groups such as ISIS and the Democratic Union Party (PYD), a US-backed Kurdish group based in Syria.
