Turkey to build wall on Turkish-Iranian border
“The PKK has the Maku, Dambat, Navur, Kotr, Keneresh and
Şehidan camps insideIrannear the Turkish border. There are some
800-1,000PKKterrorists in those camps. They enter Turkey,
carry out attacks and leave,” an official told daily Hürriyet on May 8, adding
that they escape to those camps when security operations are conducted in the
eastern province of Ağrı and the Mount Tendürek region.
“As a precaution against this, we are going to
build a wall along 70 kilometers of the border near Ağrı and [the eastern
province of] Iğdır, and we will close the rest of it with towers and iron
fences. In addition, we are placing lights on the border,” he also
said. Moreover, cameras will be set up along the highway between the
eastern province of Tunceli and the neighboring province of Elazığ as part of
measures against the PKK. The high-level official said activities along the
140-kilometer-long road will be kept under surveillance 24 hours a day.
“They previously set up a bomb in a culvert near
a road that a military motorcade was going to use on the Elazığ-Tunceli
highway. The bomb was found and it was neutralized. We will watch that highway
with cameras 24 hours a day. Cameras will be set up, and the process will be
concluded as soon as possible,” he said.
