The Turkish army has deployed substantial military reinforcements to its positions in eastern Idlib and western rural Aleppo, areas within the de-escalation zones in northwestern Syria, known as the “Putin-Erdogan” agreement.
On Friday, a large Turkish military convoy, consisting of more than 75 vehicles including armored personnel carriers, trucks loaded with logistics and military equipment, and troop carriers, entered Syria through the Bab al-Hawa border crossing.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that these reinforcements were distributed across Turkish military points in eastern rural Aleppo. This marked the second military convoy sent by Turkey in less than 24 hours, following Thursday’s deployment of a 15-vehicle convoy, which included closed trucks carrying weapons and soldiers, along with Turkish intelligence vehicles that passed through Bab al-Hawa toward Turkish points in and around Atarib, western rural Aleppo.
Two months ago, Turkish forces sent a convoy of 28 trucks filled with military and logistical supplies from Kafr Lusin to the Mastouma camp and a Turkish post in the village of Al-Salihiyah, eastern rural Idlib.
These reinforcements come amid ongoing attacks by the Syrian army in the de-escalation zones of Idlib. The Syrian Observatory also reported that Syrian forces launched a suicide drone attack on Thursday targeting a site in southern rural Idlib, while factions from the “Fatah al-Mubin Operations Room” responded with machine gun fire on the Al-Amqiyah axis in the western countryside of Hama, another area within the “Putin-Erdogan” de-escalation zone.
