(File: Anadolu News Agency)
2018-06-12
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SULAIMANI — Turkey has completed construction of a 764-kilometer (475 mile) concrete wall along its border with Syria, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Saturday (June 9), citing a Turkish official.
The Housing Development Administration of Turkey (TOKI) erected 564 kilometers of the wall, while the governor’s office of the border provinces constructed 200 kilometers of it, the official told Anadolu on condition of anonymity.
The government began building the wall in 2015 to deter smuggling and illegal border crossings.
Turkey shares a 911-kilometer border with Syria, which has been involved in a civil war since 2011.
The wall has been completed in Turkey’s border provinces of Sanliurfa, Gaziantep, Kilis, Hatay, Mardin, and Sirnak in the country’s southeast.
The official added that the state housing developer’s construction of a 144-kilometer wall on the Iranian border was almost finished.
The physical infrastructure of the wall incorporates concrete, razor wire, and electronic surveillance.
(NRT)