Subject: Re: Turkish exclave in Syria?<br/>
Date: Jan 19, 2002 @ 00:58<br/>
Author: granthutchison (&quot;granthutchison&quot; &lt;granthutchison@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1773276574">Rolf:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Someone indicated to me the existence of a Turkish exclave<br/>
&gt; within Syria, located on the east bank of the River<br/>
&gt; Euphrates, east of Membij, on the main road north-east<br/>
&gt; of Aleppo, about 25 miles south of the border.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; This would be the tomb of Suleymn-shah, but despite my<br/>
&gt; efforts I haven&#39;t been able to verify its existence and<br/>
&gt; my Turkish informants haven&#39;t been able to help.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>This tomb was Turkish property under Article 9 of the 1921 Treaty of<br/>
Ankara between Turkey and France: &quot;The mausoleum of Suleiman Shah, the<br/>
grandfather of Sultan Osman, the founder of the Ottoman dynasty, which<br/>
is located in the Caber castle, and which is known by the term Turkish<br/>
tomb, together with its annexes, will be the property of Turkey, and<br/>
Turkey will place guards there and will raise the Turkish flag.&quot;<br/>
<br/>
In 1998 it was still Turkish according to this site:<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.turkpulse.com/unde.htm">http://www.turkpulse.com/unde.htm</a><br/>
which states, &quot;The 1921 Treaty of Ankara signed between Turkey and<br/>
France makes provisions for keeping Turkish soldiers in Jaber Castle,<br/>
30 km inland from the Turkish frontier. The tomb of Suleiman Shah is<br/>
also located there and two squads of Turkish soldiers are rotated<br/>
there twice a month. Syria has recently attempted to move this castle<br/>
elsewhere because it would remain under the Teshrin dam&#39;s waters.<br/>
Turkey has rejected changing this treaty right and continues flying<br/>
the Turkish flag and keeping 20 Turkish soldiers there.&quot;<br/>
But the more recent site<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.syriagate.com/Syria/about/cities/Al_Raqqa/jaaber.htm">http://www.syriagate.com/Syria/about/cities/Al_Raqqa/jaaber.htm</a><br/>
says that the Syrians have since moved the tomb upstream.<br/>
<br/>
To me, this seems to suggest some sort of virtual enclave status which<br/>
may now have vanished altogether.<br/>
<br/>
Grant</div>