Atalay: Syria apologizes for deadly attack

 

 

Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said yesterday that Syria has apologized through the United Nations for the mortar strike which  killed five civilians in southeast Turkey on Wednesday and said such an incident would not be repeated. "Syria accepts that it did it  and apologizes. They said nothing like this will happen again. That's good. The UN mediated and spoke to Syria in the evening,"  Atalay said. Syrian Information Minister Umran al-Zuabi has said to the Syrian state television that the authorities are investigating the  shelling that hit Turkey's southeastern district of Akcakale yesterday. Al-Zuabi also called the killed Turkish citizens "martyrs" and  offered his condolences to the Turkish nation.