Russia sends soldiers engineers to Qamishli near Turkish border
Date
1/21/2016 9:20:07 AM
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) Russia has sent soldiers and engineers to the international airport in Syria’s Qamishli across the border from Turkey’s Nusaybin the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) has reported.
In a statement quoting local activists SOHR saidRussiansoldiers and engineers were dispatched to the international airport in Qamishli in order to expand the facility and enable the landing ofRussianfighter jets and cargo planes. The airport would serve to enhance Russia’s defenses the SOHR claimed.
Meanwhile the Local Coordination Committee (LCC) reported that some 100Russiansoldiers of different ranks arrived at the airport in Qamishli on Jan. 18 with a Syrian military plane.
According to the LCC’s statementRussiansoldiers were brought to Regiment 154 base in the south of Qamishli which is equipped with artillery batteries radars and anti-aircraft weapons and serves to defend the airport.
Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency reported theRussiansoldiers would be deployed to areas of Qamishli that are under the control of the Syrian regime and not the Democratic Union Party (PYD).
Turkish intelligence sources have confirmed to daily Hürriyet thatRussianforces arrived at Qamishli stating Turkey’s radars had noticed the plane carrying the soldiers.
The deployment is not a first sources said adding thatRussianforces were previously spotted in parts of Qamishli that are controlled by the regime. The number of soldiers sent to the area remains unclear the sources explained.
The reports were denied by Kurdish sources speaking to daily Hürriyet however which claimed all communications betweenRussiaand the PYD were being conducted in Moscow.
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