Another mortar shell from Syria has struck Turkish territory, prompting a fourth straight day of retaliatory artillery fire from the Turkish side.
The mortar landed in a rural area near the village of Guvecci early on Saturday morning, just minutes after intense fighting broke out between the forces of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and the rebels in the village of Harabjoz, in Syria's Idlib province, the private Dogan news agency reported.
No one was hurt by the mortar, which landed some 500 metres outside of the village. But Turkish artillery based at an army battalion near Guvecci immediately responded with "counter-fire," the state-run Anadolu Agency said.
Villagers rushed out of homes and gathered at a safer point in the village, away from the border area.
The latest shelling comes a day after Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on Syria not to test Turkey's "limits and determination" and insisted that his country "was not bluffing" with its warnings.
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