Bayirbucak ( Turkish : Bayırbucak ) is a region in the Latakia District of the Latakia Governorate in northwestern Syria . There is a considerable Syrian Turkmen presence in the area have strong cultural and historical ties with Turkey.
5-455: Bayirbucak's most distinctive mountain is Turkmen Mountain ( Arabic : جبل تركمان ; Jabal Turkman , Turkish : Türkmen Dağı ) Bayirbucak is a Turkish exonym , and not the official name for the region, which is Al-Rabiaa subdistrict . The word Bayırbucak comes from two different words in Turkish: bayır (en: hillside) and bucak (en: district). According to Ottoman archival documents, Bayir
10-518: The Turkish border. The name is not historically attested in written sources, and came into use in the media around 2012. The mountain range runs along the eastern length of Latakia Governorate . The area is mostly inhabited by Syrian Turkmen people and has seen military activity by the Syrian Army and Russian air strikes in late 2015. Close to 300,000 Turkmens have been displaced since
15-677: The Bayirbucak Turkmen regions, causing almost all Turkmens to flee the region to Turkey. This Syria location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Turkmen Mountain Turkmen Mountain ( Arabic : جبل تركمان ; Jabal Turkman , Turkish : Türkmen Dağı ) is a mountain range in the north of the Latakia region of Syria , in the area called Bayırbucak locally in Turkish, neighboring
20-662: The start of the Syrian Civil War , especially in The Turkmens mountains, where the Government enacted a demographic change by forcing the last remaining Turkmen families to leave to Turkey , and settled Alawite families in the areas controlled by government forces. Two Turkish F-16s shot down one of two Russian Su-24 fighter jets in Syria on 24 November 2015. Both pilots ejected safely, however one pilot
25-529: Was the official name of the district ( nahiye ) in the Ottoman period. On 24 November 2015, two Turkish F-16s shot down one of two Russian Su-24 fighter jets, which violated Turkish airspace while in an operation to attack militia in Bayirbucak. One Russian pilot was killed by Turkmen forces. Russian aerial bombardments during the 2015–16 Latakia offensive resulted in a very difficult situation in
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