Turkey’s President Warns of ‘Worst-Case Scenario’ as Shelling Continues
Stray Syrian Shell Sparks More Turkish Retaliation
Turkish forces have once again launched strikes against Syrian territory today after a stray Syrian shell crossed the border, landing in a cotton field and not causing any casualties.
It is the sixth day of cross border firing between Turkey and Syria, with Turkish President Abdullah Gul calling the situation a “worst case scenario” and once again pressing for international intervention in Syria.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has insisted that Turkey does not want war with Syria, but having openly backed the rebels for months and with tensions rising, there is growing concern that the war could quickly spill into southern Turkey.
Experts are warning that Syria is “simply too explosive” for Turkey to attack, and indeed while Turkey has a much larger and more modern military than Syria this is not simply a state versus state conflict, but a regional proxy war that risks exploding across borders.
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liberal
October 8th, 2012 at 8:14 pm
I don't get the Turks' bellicosity. Isn't their backing of the Syrian rebels an act of war?
mojo
October 9th, 2012 at 4:21 am
Look, this war is out of hands and out of control as long as NATO have armed itself with turkey to remove the Syrian government, turkey got the blessing of the Neo Liberalism European fascism, so as the Obama Islamization doctrine of the word. Here hanging the Europeans and American political "prestige", if they lose then they lost what they have left in terms of economical power, is a "prestige" rather then democracy for these people, is a "prestige" of the Europeans kings and queen (sweden is included) and the Saudis brutal, a dictatorial stone aged regime prestige that needs to be saved, to he'll with democracy who needs it anyway, as long as Angela Markell can provide for Spanish, Greece the French and others in Europe and beyond, those poor people whom have to go to church to beg for economic help from outer space and beyond, because their liberal fascist governments are busy with their stupidity, a notion wanting to change the world for their tyrants.
pendulum
October 9th, 2012 at 9:13 am
the FSA has found a new tactic
Jaime
October 9th, 2012 at 1:54 pm
Before you thought about this worst-case scenario, you should've thought about the consequences of destabilizing another country. Now it's too late to complain and whatever comes your way, you have it well-deserved.
Mark Thomason
October 9th, 2012 at 2:35 pm
Yes, we would certainly say so if it were done to any of our friends.