{"id":25795,"date":"2013-07-23T18:25:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T14:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=25795"},"modified":"2013-07-23T18:28:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T14:28:29","slug":"1-killed-in-firefight-at-turkish-syrian-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=25795","title":{"rendered":"1 Killed in Firefight at Turkish-Syrian Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/turks-patrol.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25793\" alt=\"Turkish soldiers patrol and search for mines on a road surrounded by rugged mountains in south-eastern province of Sirnak\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/turks-patrol.jpg\" width=\"850\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/turks-patrol.jpg 850w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/turks-patrol-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/turks-patrol-424x300.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a>Turkey&#8217;s military says soldiers returned fire on a group of people trying to cross into Turkey illegally from Syria, killing one of them.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting is the latest in a series of incidents on the shared 910-kilometer (566-mile) border. Turkish security forces have been retaliating to stray fire from Syria landing on Turkey&#8217;s territory or to attacks from smugglers or other people trying to enter the country illegally.<\/p>\n<p>The military said that a group of eight &#8220;civilians&#8221; fired up to 15 shots at soldiers patrolling the border late on Monday, ignoring their warnings to stop. The troops then fired back.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, the military also said Tuesday that seven soldiers were slightly injured after a group of suspected fuel oil smugglers from Syria threw stones at the security forces.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey&#8217;s military says soldiers returned fire on a group of people trying to cross into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,224,137],"tags":[1893],"class_list":["post-25795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","category-world","tag-turkish-syrian-border","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}