A camp full of refugees on Turkey’s border with Syria and a Turkish government that has been keen to advance the cause of international military intervention in its neighbor country could be conspiring to provide NATO with a convenient excuse for a war.
Early in the week fighting on the border spilled briefly into Turkey, with gunfire from the Syrian military straying into a refugee camp and injuring four. The Turkish government insisted it was a “deliberate” attack on the camp.
Days later Turkey is still railing on about the “violation” of its border, and insisting that as a member of NATO the alliance is obliged to protect its border from incursions. Prime Minister Erdogan insisted that Turkey has “many options” to take under international law in retaliation for the gunfire.
No one seriously thinks the incident on the border was a genuine Syrian threat to attack Turkey, but NATO members have been itching for an excuse for military intervention, and such an incident could be a ready-made one. With US officials openly talking about imposing a military-created “buffer zone” area in northern Syria, the ceasefire in Syria is unlikely to end calls for international intervention.
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"Prime Minister Erdogan insisted that Turkey has “many options” to take under international law in retaliation for the gunfire”.
It is need to be said that helping, harboring mercenaries, training organizations that are on the lists of many countries including US as terrorist is also against the intentional law. But it seams that this man is truly looking for a war not considering the aftermath or the consequences, Look Erdogan, you are the puppet of EU – NATO helping the tyrants regimes wanting to have a war with Syrian possibly Iran and perhaps Russia, that shows that you are not a man of peace nor your sectarian politics pointing in that direction, so go home have a turkish coffee and chill out man, is not good for you to get exited in your age.
Prime Minister Erdogan, he gave us nothing but words after Israeli commandos butchered 9 activists headed for Gaza, nothing but hot air that did nothing but glorify pride.
Just recently the islamist fighter commander of Tripoli, Libya with 600 fighters have been shipped by NATO airplanes to the Turish/Syrian border to enforce the so-called "Syrian free army" .
They let foreign powers attack Syria and when they shoot back they tell us -NATO must save the attackers???
Always the same tactics. This should also be reported here – why not? Always such things are nit reported in the antiwar articles – only here in the comment section it can be found and is regularly ignored by the authors of the articles here. I get such information, which is censored here, regularly at http://www.net-news-global.de or http://www.mathaba.net
"gunfire from the Syrian military straying into a refugee camp and injuring four"
And exactly how do we know that it wasn't the rebels emptying a few magazines toward the Turkish border with a view of inciting the sort of reaction Ankara is now showing? Which brings us to the subject of Erdogan. What exactly does he think he is getting out of the saber-rattling and war-mongering? Is the Turkish Army, reputed to be a pliable tool of the FedGov, threatening him with a coup d'etat if doesn't let them invade Syria? Does the recent indictment of a Turkish general for carrying out another coup in 1982 have anything to do with the Syrian crisis? Hopefully sane heads will prevail in Turkey.
"gunfire from the Syrian military straying into a refugee camp and injuring four"
And how do we know that it wasn't the rebels emptying a few magazines toward the Turkish border with a view of inciting the sort of reaction Ankara is now showing? Which brings us to the subject of Erdogan. What exactly does he think he is getting out of the saber-rattling and war-mongering? Is the Turkish Army, reputed to be a pliable tool of the FedGov, threatening him with a coup d'etat if he doesn't let them invade Syria? Does the recent indictment of a Turkish general for carrying out another coup in 1982 have anything to do with the Syrian crisis? Hopefully sane heads will prevail in Turkey.
October 07, 2012
Syria: False Flag Attacks To Clear A Border Zone
It seems I was wrong in suggesting that Erdogan was made to step back from the brink. The false flag mortar shots from Syria onto Turkish grounds are said to continue. It defies any logic that the Syrian army would do such continues provocations. The Syrian government has no interest in giving Turkey a pretext for using its troops against Syria.
Each time such an unverifiable event happens the Turkish military is now using it (Dutch video report) to hold down Syrian army units with its artillery while the foreign sponsored insurgents take this or that town or army position.
This all together looks like a coordinated plan to push the Syrian army out of the border region with Turkey and to establish a zone there that the rebels can control and use for training and rest. It is Erdogan's solution for the increasing problem those insurgents create for him on the Turkish side of the border.
It is also an escalation that deserves a response.
Posted by b on October 7, 2012 at 11:50 AM | Permalink: http://www.moonofalabama.org/2012/10/syria-false-…
October 07, 2012
Syria: False Flag Attacks To Clear A Border Zone
It seems I was wrong in suggesting that Erdogan was made to step back from the brink. The false flag mortar shots from Syria onto Turkish grounds are said to continue. It defies any logic that the Syrian army would do such continues provocations. The Syrian government has no interest in giving Turkey a pretext for using its troops against Syria.
Each time such an unverifiable event happens the Turkish military is now using it (Dutch video report) to hold down Syrian army units with its artillery while the foreign sponsored insurgents take this or that town or army position.
This all together looks like a coordinated plan to push the Syrian army out of the border region with Turkey and to establish a zone there that the rebels can control and use for training and rest. It is Erdogan's solution for the increasing problem those insurgents create for him on the Turkish side of the border.
It is also an escalation that deserves a response.
Posted by b on October 7, 2012 at 11:50 AM | Permalink: http://www.moonofalabama.org/2012/10/syria-false-…