On Friday after two shells sent off from Syria landed in Turkish territory Turkey’s army fired on Syria, and the tension between the two neighbors remains dangerously high.
The source did not mentioned where the incident happened and no further details were available. Turkey has held a series of retaliatory strikes against President Bashar al-Assad’s forces fighting rebels.
On Friday Syrian rebels had a strike with Assad’s troops in a town near the Turkish border province of Hatay. A large plume of smoke could be seen rising from the Syrian town after an explosion around midday.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu called on all sides involved in the Syrian conflict to examinse a ceasefire during the Islamic Eid al-Adha festival next week.
U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is planned to arrive in Damascus later in the day to try to stop that ceasefire.
