The Turkish Commerce Ministry has announced that it is closing all border crossings into neighboring Syria for an indeterminate period of time, citing clashes between rebel factions in the area.
That’s putting it mildly, as the top pro-US commander of the rebels, Gen. Salim Idris, has been forced to flee Syria outright, first to Turkey and then Qatar. All FSA warehouses have since been sacked by Islamist fighters, and his office is now the office of the Islamic Front.
It’s far from the rebellion Turkey had in mind when it started endorsing the uprising against its former ally Bashar Assad. Assuming a quick victory by the military defectors and some sort of junta, Turkey instead has two Syrias on its southern border: a Kurdish one and an al-Qaeda dominated one. Neither is expected to be friendly to Turkey in the near term.
The Syrian National Coalition, the civilian body behind the FSA, downplayed the move as “temporary,” expressing hope Turkey would reopen the border soon. That seems unlikely, however, as the rebels are skewing more and more Islamist with each passing day.
The Erdogan regime should have closed its birder long time ago and helped the Syrian government before the present situation, that is to say, if Turkish government had no other idea before the present situation where the Islamist been gaining ground right by the Turkish birder. Everyone thought that by starting the Syrian war, Syria becomes the second victory of NATO militarism regime (after Libya) whereby such victory Erdogan could become the Neo Islamist liberal Middle East supper power, After all, it is the Turkish air line that flying these terrorists from EU to fight the Syrian people and Erdogan government knows about it, after all, it was and is the Turkish government providing safe houses for these terrorists along the Turkish Syrian border before entering Syrian territory, there is no other way for these terrorists entering northern Syria then from Turkey. The weapons provided by USG and Saudis are sent to Turkey before its been given to either of these terrorist groups. The CIA training of these terrorists groups is publicly knowledges by all side and Turkish government providing the needed logistic in Turkey.
i can't believe you guys are waking up to reality after years of misjudgement.. i was raised as sunni muslim, I can tell you that Majority of those sunni muslims are uneducated individuals thinking that war or force is the only options available to solve problems. These people have no value for life or understand the meaning of life. Anyways, someone out there is playing with fire, which i think is a great mistake.
This would be funny if it weren't for the 100,000 dead, millions displaced and the destruction of an ancient culture.
When you play with fire…
When you play with fire…
The best thing the idiots from Turkey should do is instruct the MIT to work closely with Syria in order to squash the terrorists that are bringing havoc to a country whose main fault was to oppose the west evil plans..