The Turkish government denied claims that it had sent troops into northern Syria, where the regime backed by the Russian air force has launched a major campaign, AFP reports.
"It is not true," Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz told parliament on Sunday night when asked whether Turkish soldiers had intervened in the fighting in the Syrian province of Aleppo. "The Turkish military has no intention of intervening in Syria."
The Syrian government claimed that on Saturday 12 pick-up trucks equipped with heavy machine guns and ammunition had crossed into Syria from Turkey via the Bab al-Salama border crossing.
They "were accompanied by around 100 gunmen, some of them Turkish forces and Turkish mercenaries," Syrian state news agency SANA quoted the Foreign Ministry as saying.