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 ari ...
in the north of the
Latakia
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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. The area is mostly inhabited by
Syrian Turkmen
Syrian Turkmen, also referred to as Syrian Turkomans, Turkish Syrians, or simply Syrian Turks or Turks of Syria, ( ar, تركمان سوريا; tr, Suriye Türkmenleri or ) are Syrian citizens of Turkish people, Turkish origin who mainly trace ...
people and has seen military activity by the
Syrian Army
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* Combat uniform: Green, Black, Khaki
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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 transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula ...
, and settled Alawite families in the areas controlled by government forces.
Two
Turkish F-16
The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is a single-engine multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force (USAF). Designed as an air superiority day fighter, it evolved into a successf ...
s
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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