The border with Turkey Turcoman village arrived humanitarian aid – First Canal

In addition to air support Russia carries out a humanitarian operation in the Arab country. Food and Drug Administration passed the Syrian forces, and they bring them to where help is needed most. Among these points -. Settlement near the border with Turkey

The truck with humanitarian aid went out to meet almost all the inhabitants of the city of Bordj-Islam. In the back of the machine – ten tons of food: sugar, cereals, pasta. This village is located forty kilometers from the Turkish border, and when the war began, it was here from the border areas began to move ethnic Turks, to be away from the clashes. But the main thing – not to be in the ranks of militants

Turkomans, as they are called, more than one generation living in Syria in small towns along the border with Turkey.. All of them – the citizens of Syria, but with Turkish roots, as in recent years have increasingly resemble in Ankara, when we speak of the unity of this nation and the protection of its interests.

“We have no illusions about whose interests are actually baked Turkish leader Erdogan. Certainly not on ours. Since everyone knows that we are more Syrians than the Turks. Yes, together we speak a Turkic language, but writing in Arabic our homeland Syria, and no other, we do not need “, -. says Eptisan Sabuni

However, some Turkomans after the start of clashes in Syria was on the side. fighters, such as the population of the border town of Al-Rabia. And last November, when the Turkish Air Force shot down a Russian Su-24 bomber, it is from this village fired on the catapult commander Oleg Peshkov. On the tragic death of Russian pilot in Burj Islam is known to many, and have extremely negative attitude to the fact that their countrymen did. Moreover, the majority of ethnic Turks were originally on the side of the Syrian authorities.

“very many are now fighting on the side of the Syrian government forces among the residents of our city and it is quite wrong -. All Turkomans call the accomplices of terrorists only from our city, protecting Syria, killing twenty people and as much again injured. “-. said Ahmad Bashbayut

home to one of the largest diasporas Turkomans in Syria in Borj Islam, about twenty thousand people, and the beginning of the war, this figure increased even by one third due to refugees from other areas in north of the country. In recent months, the situation of these people has improved somewhat thanks largely to the supply of humanitarian goods. For example, the party collected not only in Syria but also in Russia.