Turkey staged its first large-scale military mission in Syria over the weekend, sending hundreds of Troops and armoured tanks across the border **t only to rescue a group of stranded soldiers but also to save an 800-year-old skeleton. During the raid in the Syrian village of Karakozak, on the banks of the Euphrates River, Turkish forces recovered the sarcophagus, human remains and other relics from the Tomb of Suleyman Shah, the grandfather of Osman I, who founded the Ottoman Empire.