Turkey limits border traffic at Syria crossing due to 'capture by terror group'

Turkey has limited cross-border movements at its Cilvegözü crossing on the Syrian border
Thursday, 10 August 2017 16:29

Turkey has limited the movement at its Cilvegözü border crossing with Syria because the Syrian side is controlled by a "terrorist organisation", Customs and Trade Minister Bülent Tüfenkci said on Aug. 10. 

Last month, Hayat Tahrir al Sham, a terrorist alliance spearheaded by the former al Qaeda offshoot Nusra Front, took control of the border area and most of Idlib province in several days of heavy fighting with its main rival, Ahrar al-Sham.