After a week of exchanging cross-border attacks with Syria, Turkey on Wednesday warned that it may respond even more forcefully than it already has.
“We responded, but if it continues we will respond with greater force,” the Turkish chief of staff, Gen. Necdet Ozel said, according to Reuters.
Last week, shelling from Syria landed in a Turkish town and killed 5 civilians. Turkey immediately responded with returning artillery fire. But after Damascus said it would investigate the initial shelling, Ankara just kept on firing across the border, seemingly eager for a fight.
For much of the mortar fire coming into Turkey from Syria, according to the New York Times, “It has not been clear whether the Syrian mortar is deliberate or the result of inaccurate fire in clashes between government forces and rebels seeking the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad.”
Still, Turkey has kept up its “retaliation.” NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Tuesday that NATO would back Turkey in case of a more substantial break-out of war. But at the same time he urged the two sides to avoid escalation, in a sign of the West’s remaining unease with getting involved in anything more than a proxy war in Syria.
High stake game of chicken. NATO is kicking Turkey to fight Syria, hopefully between what is left of the dwindling infliltrators/insurgents and Turkish military — bring down the regime in Damascus. But Turkey does not want to attack Syria without NATO first taking Syrian airforce. Otherwise, it risks Syria launching retaliatory strikes on Turkish cities.
But the risks for NATO! Turkey may well establish itself as one of the dominant powers in the Middle East, along with Egyipt. With Egypt and Iran coordinating their positions, Middle East may well become Turkish-Egyptian-Iranian condominium.
Then again who knows who actually fired into Turkey. Would not an "incident" staged by the likes of the FSA be in their interest? Anyone willing to let loose suicide bombs and kill civilians willy nilly doesn't give a damn who they kill so long as they get what they want.
Weapons made in the Ukraine and sold to Saudi Arabia have been found at rebel bases in Syria.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19874…
I regard this as staged news. I expect Erdogan and Turkish military is under NATO pressure to do so. Not as said here.
I also believe that the shelling into Turkey came from Turkish weapons within the Syrian territory. At least this report of a Lebanese journalist in Syria
shows Turkish military officers within Syria, having a plane, lorries and many weapons delivered the the NATO fighters – called free Syrian Army – despite being 85-90 percent foreigners according to German secret service
and a medical doctor of medicines without border providing surgery for the rebels. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S17-TUqAghU
According to the Syrian UN ambassador Bashar al-Jaafari
Turkey hosts many NATO mercenaries along the whole Turkish border for their hit and run terror attacks on Syrian towns close to the border:
Bashar al-Jaafari
I do not under stand why such information is always censored here. Having experienced so extreme fakes and lies from NATO media I believe virtually anything from the Syrian side. I actually think they are very bad propagandists and act very unprofessionally.
Turkish newspaper says shell at Turkish territory were made with NATO shells, which do not exist in Syria – except those delivered to the rebels by Turkey and shot by them: http://www.yurtgazetesi.com.tr/images/dosyalarim/…
Media Distortion of Facts Vid1: Syrian rebels use pictures of Turkish war crimes against Kurds watch?v=ApsPSySODN8
Huge Istanbul Anti-War Against Syria Protest
Turkey is boiling against Erdogan's Zionist policies in the region and this protest taking Istanbul people out to the streets to show their disagreement of the war drums Turkey's Muslim Brotherhood government is beating against Syria.
considering this really Huge Istanbul Anti-War Demonstration Against Syria war, Erdogan's muslim brotherhood government could get many difficulties:
I guess providing them a haven and base of operations as well as logistic and training support isn't enough Turkey is clearly looking for a way to directly support it's jihadist.
Look, NATO is a militarism regime as USA is and both share the same interests, a world dominating economic power a new conical system with a puppet regime as Tukey is, what is different is the method and political way that countries as NATO operates, they (NATO as democrats, the falsified ones) will kill you with patience and in time, the other side, the Neo liberal fascism hand In hand with European Neo fascism will and wate to kill you faster. Here the Turkish Islamic regime and is first obligation is to help the Saudis stone aged regime to survive while Islamization of Obama doctrine is and has been the agenda for last 4 years,. The presents governments of NATO and USA see the Iranian as their enemy, not the Zionism nor the sunny Muslims, because their constitutions doesn't talk about imperialism and don't say that A government of Iran needs to be a anti imperialism.
Erdagon, why don't you throw in a 'price tag' action or two whilst you are it. After all, that's what the master does when things don't go his way.
Erdragon?
Foggy Anders has volunteered to don a NATO t-shirt, showing his muscles and looking savage from where he would stand 50 miles behind the Turk forces growling and foaming.