Turkey has evacuated troops guarding an Ottoman tomb in Syria as Obama’s JV ISIS threatens the Turks now. The Ottoman tomb that had Turkey evacute soliders guarding it is near the Syrian town o Kobani, another target of ISIS.
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Turkey launched an overnight military operation into neighboring Syria to evacuate troops guarding an Ottoman tomb, authorities said Sunday.
TRT television broadcaster said ground troops backed by warplanes crossed into Syrian territory to reach the tomb, just over the border near the town of Kobani.
Private NTV television said one soldier was killed in the operation. The Turkish military later issued a statement saying the soldier had been killed in an “accident” en route to the tomb, without elaborating.
On Twitter, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the tomb of Suleyman Shah, the grandfather of Osman I, founder of the Ottoman Empire, was moved into Turkey. The tomb, once some 22 miles from Turkey on the banks of the Euphrates River, was in Syria’s embattled Aleppo province and is considered Turkish territory.