Video: Syria: William Hague condemns 'outrageous' mortar attack on Turkey The Foreign Secretary has condemned the attack on a Turkish village that left five people dead including a mother and three of her children and said the Turkey's military response was understandable but an escalation of the situation should be avoided. Ankara responded to the shelling by launching its own reprisal artillery attacks on Syrian targets. "The Turkish response is understandable, an outrageous act has taken place, Turkish citizens have been killed inside Turkey by forces from another country," Mr Hague said. So we express our strong solidarity with Turkey but we don't want to see a continuing escalation of this incident. Mr Hague said the Syrian government should make sure that "there is no repetition whatever of any incident of this kind so that such tensions on border regions with Turkey or with other neighbouring countries can be avoided."