Suleyman Shah

About 120 weeks after (then foreign minister) Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu accurately predicted that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad?s days in power were numbered and (then prime minister) President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an promised that ?we shall soon have prayers of gratitude in Damascus? (after Mr.

Turkey?s army continued preparations to move a historical Ottoman tomb closer to the Turkish border in northern Syria on Feb. 24, but the owner of the plot has reportedly said Ankara did not ask for permission to use the land.

The government had to relocate the historical artifact from ISIL to Kurdish-controlled Syrian soil The relocation of the Turkish tomb in Syria with an army operation overnight on Feb. 21 could be taken as the Turkish government?s second retreat regarding pressure from the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) in Syria and Iraq in the last six months.

As Turkey is embroiled in troubles emanating from the civil war in neighbor Syria on the 91st anniversary of the foundation of the Turkish Republic, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan used the occasion to issue a message in support of soldiers defending the 700-year-old tomb of Suleyman Shah, a Turkish enclave in northern Syria.

President Erdoğan issued a special Eid-al-Adha message to the Turkish soldiers guarding the Süleyman Şah tomb

Chief of Staff Gen. Özel has addressed the Turkish soldiers keeping guard at the Süleyman Şah tomb, saying the army would lend support to the staff in the event of an attack on the area