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|caption= |date= 3 October 2012 – 31 December 2014 |place= Syria and Turkey |result= Turkish victory; *Syria halts shelling of Turkey |combatant1= Syria |combatant2= Turkey |commander1= Bashar al-Assad Wael Nader Al-Halqi Ali Abdullah Ayyoub |commander2= Abdullah Gül Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Necdet Özel |strength1= |strength2= |casualties1=12 soldiers killed ''(Turkish claim)''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Turkish retaliatory fire has killed 12 Syrian soldiers -report )〕 14 soldiers killed 23 soldiers wounded ''(Syrian opposition claim)''〔(Turkey Strikes Syria ) ''The Wall Street Journal''〕 |casualties2=5 civilians killed 13 civilians and police wounded |casualties3= }} As Syrian Arab Spring protests turned into an all-out civil war, the thousand mile long Syrian–Turkish border became the scene of minor military clashes between the Turkish army and various factions in the war to the south. One of the most serious of these occurred on 3 October 2012, when an artillery shell fired from Syria by the Syrian Army killed five and injured at least ten Turkish citizens in the border town of Akçakale in Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. The Turkish armed forces artillery units conducted saturation shelling of Syrian military posts. ==2011–12 incidents== Since the beginning of the Syrian civil war, Turkey, once an ally of Syria, has condemned Assad over the use of violent force against protesters and has requested his departure from office. In October 2011, Turkey began sheltering the Free Syrian Army, offering the group a safe zone and a base of operation. Together with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, Turkey has also provided the rebels with arms and other military equipment. On 22 June 2012, a Turkish F-4 fighter jet was shot down by Syrian government forces. Both pilots were killed. Syria stated that it had shot the fighter down using anti-aircraft artillery near the village of Om al-Tuyour, while it was flying over Syrian territorial waters one kilometre away from land. Turkey's foreign minister stated the jet was shot down in international airspace after accidentally entering Syrian airspace, while it was on a training flight to test Turkey's radar capabilities. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed retaliation, saying: "The rules of engagement of the Turkish Armed Forces have changed ... Turkey will support Syrian people in every way until they get rid of the bloody dictator and his gang." Ankara acknowledged that the jet had flown over Syria for a short time, but said such temporary overflights were common, had not led to an attack before, and alleged that Syrian helicopters had violated Turkish airspace five times without being attacked and that a second, search-and-rescue jet had been fired at.〔 Assad later expressed regret over the incident. In August 2012, reports appeared in some Turkish newspapers claiming that the Turkish General Staff had deliberately misinformed the Turkish government about the fighter's location when it was shot down. The reports said that a NATO command post at Izmir and a British base in Cyprus had confirmed that the fighter was shot down inside Syrian waters and that radar intelligence from U.S. forces had disproved any "accidentally entered Syrian waters" flightpath error. The General Staff denied the claims.〔''Hurriyet Daily News'', 11–12 August 2012, page 5, "No Misinformation on Downed Jet: Army".〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Syrian–Turkish border clashes (2012–14)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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