One week after Turkey shot down a Syrian warplane near the border, tensions continue to grow, and Syria has announced the deployment of anti-aircraft missile batteries along the border to repel “hostile” Turkish planes.
It’s a possibility that seems more likely by the day, after a leak last week revealed the Erdogan government talking about using the security at an Ottoman-era shrine as a pretext for invading northern Syria outright.
Today saw even more acrimony, as Turkey reported mortar shells landing on their side of the border from the civil war, and launching artillery attacks into Syrian territory.
Syria’s information ministry also accused Turkey of orchestrating some of the rebel attacks in Latakia Province, saying they’d sent foreign fighters “armed to the teeth” into Latakia to join the fight against the Assad government.
Turkey and Syria were once close allies, but early in the civil war the Turkish government began openly backing the rebels.
This is not a Turkish plan, this is NATO plan with turkey starting the plan to invade Syria, Turkey is the member of NATO, NATO is responsible if turkey is attacked by anyone to retaliate, by turkey invading Syria, Syrian army will defend its borders, that’s when is time for NATO to act. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the head of NATO is waiting for this moment to happen before handing over his post to his Norwegian counterpart.