Subject: Re: syria-turkey<br/>
Date: Jan 14, 2006 @ 15:29<br/>
Author: aletheiak (&quot;aletheiak&quot; &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1011990045">--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, Dallen Timothy &lt;dtimothy@a...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;<br/>
&gt; Hi folks,<br/>
&gt; I just got back last night from a trip to the Middle East. I had the fortunate experience of <br/>
 </span></blockquote>crossing over the Turkey-Syria border and the Syria-Lebanon border. It was fascinating, <br/>
and I&#39;ll be posting some pictures on my Website next week. Surprisingly, the border was <br/>
well marked on the Turkey-Syria border, but not on the Syria-Lebanon border. I was <br/>
surprised by the Turkey-Syria marking because Syria apparently still claims the Hatay <br/>
province (the little piece of Turkey that hangs down along the coast halfway through <br/>
Turkey) as its own--Syrian maps still show it as part of Syria. I&#39;ll leave you salivating until <br/>
next week.<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Dallen<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>here is why syria is only drooling in her sleep over that<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/collection/LimitsinSeas/IBS163.pdf">http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/collection/LimitsinSeas/IBS163.pdf</a><br/>
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<br/>
& the flap is its own entire province of turkey<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/turkey_admin83.jpg">http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/turkey_admin83.jpg</a><br/>
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but it faces 3 provinces on the syrian side<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/syria_pol90.jpg">http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/syria_pol90.jpg</a><br/>
& thus presents a few major tripoints<br/>
tho they dont look very close to the main border crossings<br/>
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<br/>
& no surprise that the lebanon syria border is vague<br/>
as it is one of the very few that dont even have an international boundary study<br/>
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& of course there are tripoints there too but same story if not moreso</div>