Süleyman Shah Operation

The prime minister said that planning for the Süleyman Shah operation, conducted on Feb. 21, had begun a month before, and if a single shot had been fired on Turkish troops, the whole region from the border to the tomb would have been placed under Turkish occupation. In what he described as Turkey's B Plan, Davutoğlu said the occupation of the region would have been carried out to protect the troops, and that if the Assad regime had threatened to use force or had fired a single shot, it would have become a military target. Davutoğlu said that the tomb of Süleyman Shah, the grandfather of Ottoman Empire's founder Osman Bey, would be moved back to near the Caber Castle once stability returned to Syria.