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Turkish army blames Syria regime for deadly air strike
[Al Ahram] The Turkish army blamed the Syrian regime for an air strike Thursday in northern Syria that killed three soldiers -- the first time it has accused Damascus of killing its troops since launching its three-month military incursion.The incident came on the first anniversary of the shooting down of a Russian military jet over the Syrian border by the Turkish air force. That led to a seven-month crisis in relations between ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Russia, an ally of Syrian  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... that has provided military support to Damascus. The army said the strike took place at 3:30 am (0030 GMT). It did not indicate the location, although local media said it took place in the Al Bab region. "In the air strike assessed to have been by Syrian regime forces, three of our heroic soldiers were killed and 10 soldiers maimed, one seriously," the armed forces said in an online statement. Turkish media reported earlier that the attack was by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) Death Eaters. Adding to the confusion, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was an "attack by IS" on its website. But Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim insisted at a news conference that the army's statement was "still valid". He said it was evident that "some are not happy with Turkey's fight against ISIS (IS)", without indicating who this might be. Yildirim vowed that the attacks would be "given a response" and would not diminish the military's determination to remove "terrorists" in the region. But Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) chief Kemal Kilicdaroglu warned that the incident could drag the country "into a very dangerous process" and called for the government to act with "common sense".
Posted by: Fred 2016-11-25 |
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