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I tried to find out why there is this weird single-village salient at Topraktutan (Beysun), but apparently this is just the way the boundary was drawn by the Franco-Turkish commission of 1938/9 as reported in the protocol of 3 May 1939. If there is any specific reason for placing the village in Turkey, it is presumably mentioned there. The US State Department report of 1978 just says the border goes "across mountainous topography" between the Orontes and the Kara Dourane.
But the border does seem to roughly follow topography, either rivulets or hill crests, so maybe that's the only reason. There is a monument marking the southernmost point, including some martial pronouncement involving bayonets and honour attributed to Atatürk, but that may be just generic nationalism without any special relation to this weird one-village protrusion of Turkish territory. I just find it striking how such random details sometimes end up making history, as in this case with the 2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown. The village does not seem to have been important enough for much google-able context, but "the Internet" tells me it had 500 or so inhabitants in the 1980s, but was later evacuated due to landslides and/or flooding. --dab(𒁳)12:07, 26 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Syria still has claims over this region, which is actually the most interesting thing there is to say about the Syro-Turkish border. So why is there no mention of this in the article? There are official government maps in which this area is considered a Turkish-occupied territory of Syria. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.188.187.235 (talk) 13:58, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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