Turkmen Mountain ( ar, جبل تركمان; ''Jabal Turkman'', tr, Türkmen Dağı) is a
mountain range
A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arise ...
in the north of the
Latakia region of
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
, in the area called
Bayırbucak locally in Turkish, neighboring the
Turkish border. The name is not historically attested in written sources, and only began being used in the media around 2012.
The mountain range runs along the eastern length of
Latakia Governorate
Latakia Governorate, also transliterated as Ladhakia Governorate, ( ar, مُحافظة اللاذقية / ALA-LC: ''Muḥāfaẓat al-Lādhiqīyah'') is one of the 14 governorates of Syria. It is situated in western Syria, bordering Turkey's Hata ...
. The area is mostly inhabited by
Syrian Turkmen people and has seen military activity by the
Syrian Army
" (''Guardians of the Homeland'')
, colors = * Service uniform: Khaki, Olive
* Combat uniform: Green, Black, Khaki
, anniversaries = August 1st
, equipment =
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, battles = 1948 Arab–Israeli War
Six ...
and
Russian air strikes in late 2015. Close to 300,000 Turkmens have been displaced since the start of the
Syrian Civil War, especially in The Turkmens mountains, where the Government enacted a demographic change by forcing the last remaining
Turkmen families to leave to
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
, and settled Alawite families in the areas controlled by government forces.
Two
Turkish F-16s
shot down one of two Russian
Su-24
The Sukhoi Su-24 (NATO reporting name: Fencer) is a supersonic, all-weather attack aircraft developed in the Soviet Union. The aircraft has a variable-sweep wing, twin-engines and a side-by-side seating arrangement for its crew of two. It was ...
fighter jets in Syria on 24 November 2015. Both pilots ejected safely, however one pilot was killed by
Turkmen forces.
References
Latakia Governorate
Mountain ranges of Syria
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