Saturday, January 14, 2017

330 km wall on the Turkish border with Syria and Iraq – Onet.pl

In the last year on the Turkish borders with these two countries were brought against the wire mesh fence with a total length of 191 km.

stretching over 820 kilometers of the border with Syria, the construction of the wall began in 2014, mainly in order to combat illegal immigration. Until September 2016 appeared ok. 200 km of the wall, and then forecasts the whole investment had to be completed before February of this year.

the Newspaper “Hurriyet” reported that the cost of construction of the wall along with passing along the way to patrol the border service will be the equivalent of 672 million UAH. The wall is built with a weight of seven tons of concrete blocks to a height of three meters, zwieńczonych barbed wire.

In the same report of the General staff on Thursday it was reported that last year approximately 425 thousand. people from 74 countries were arrested while trying to illegally cross the border of Turkey. 390 thousand of those people were Syrians fleeing their country at war. Turkey is now about. three million Syrian refugees.

As reported by the Anatolia Agency, the Turkish government has spent since the war began in Syria in 2011 approx. 25 billion for housing and support Syrian refugees.

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