Did you even read the article??
"The wall will be backed by a mined area. Government engineers are also digging ditches and erecting fortified fences, along with thermal imaging cameras atop 30-foot-high steel watchtowers to catch anyone trying to cross at night, the Reuters news agency reported. Drones have been deployed to patrol the skies above the border.
Refugee numbers and illegal smuggling have gone down sharply as the wall has gone up, Ankara officials say, and the danger posed by Islamic State terrorist group has eased.
“It looks like the Turks have finally, successfully, closed their last stretch of border with ISIS,” Sam Heller, Beirut-based fellow at The Century Foundation think tank, told the news agency. “They probably could have done it sooner, but this was something that was subject to other political calculations and considerations.”
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