Turkey to keep terrorists out of borders with electronic sensors

After the deadliest suicide attack in Ankara last week, Turkey has sped up its work to strengthen border security.

Turkey began to build a concrete wall months ago with plans to integrate it with an electronic barrier system.

According to the border security plan, Turkey will increase security by building a concrete wall, digging ditches, road reclamations, developing lighting systems, establishing security cameras, and implementing electric fencing and radar cameras along its 900-kilometer-long border with Syria.

The physical security measures would include a 3.5-meter-high concrete wall with wire fences, security lights and cameras along the 900-kilometer border. The plan also includes the flying of surveillance balloons and building a two-fenced border system with new ditches, according to security sources.

Turkey also continues to establish a physical security system along the border. The SFGS system includes 24-hour surveillance by mobile surveillance vehicles, concrete walls with barbed wire fencing, air support with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) surveillance and illumination towers for night time surveillance.

The biggest part of the reinforcement efforts in four out of five border provinces with Syria, Hatay, Gaziantep, Şanlıurfa and Mardin, have already been completed.

The government has already renewed nearly 200 kilometers of wire fencing and set up over 100 kilometers of new fencing on the border.

Moreover, the construction of a 151-kilometer-long wall and 450 kilometer-long ditch is continuing with full speed.