Turkey called on the UN Security Council to take "necessary action" to halt Syrian aggression against its territory, after cross-border shelling killed five Turkish civilians.
"This is an act of aggression by Syria against Turkey," Ankara's UN Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan on Wednesday said in a letter to Guatemalan Ambassador Gert Rosenthal, who heads the rotating presidency of the 15-nation council.
"It constitutes a flagrant violation of international law as well as a breach of international peace and security. Turkey calls for an immediate end to such unacceptable violations,” said the letter.