Türkiye built a wall on the border with Iraq and Syria

Turkey has completed the construction of the wall along the border with Syria and Iraq, Anadolu reports .

In 2016, 330 kilometers were built, the wall was erected for the safety of border areas. At a 191 kilometer piece, barbed wire fences were built.

As notes Anadola, over the past year, 57 thousand attempts to illegally cross the state border have been prevented.

Most of these attempts were made on the Syrian-Turkish border, 424 thousand people were detained. Most violators are Syrians, the agency clarifies.

Since August 2016, Turkey has been conducting in Syria the operation “Shield of Euphrates”, the purpose of which is also to ensure security on the border for refugees. The construction of the wall began at the end of 2015, as Reuters transmitted, the total length of the Syrian-Turkish border is 990 kilometers.

In early 2017, it was reported that Turkey also plans to build a wall on the border with Iran and Armenia. Ankara has no diplomatic relations with Yerevan, the Armenian-Turkish border has been closed since 1993.