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| Turkey sending troops into Syria | |||
| 2011-06-12 | |||
Syrian soldiers are now dying in battle A new and dramatic turn in the Syrian crisis: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Friday night, June 10, ordered his army to move into northern Syria where battles were blazing in Idlib, Maarat al-Numaan and Jisr al-Shuhour. DEBKAfile's exclusive sources report that the prime minister's office and high command in Ankara are still working out how to define the Turkish military mission in Syria. One proposal is to evoke UN Security Council's 1973 resolution which mandated the NATO operation in Libya to protect civilian lives against Col. Qaddafi. Ankara decided on military intervention Friday night, two days before Turkey's general election, after learning about the latest turn in the showdown between the Syrian government and the opposition. Away from the limelight, heavy fighting also raged in Idlib, west of Syria's second largest town Aleppo, and Maarat al-Numaan, a small western market city located on the highway between Aleppo and Hama. In these places, the Syrian army encountered the guns of a Muslim Brotherhood militia fighting alongside a group of defecting soldiers, according to our military sources. 1. To stem the swelling stream of Syrian refugees fleeing massacre at the hands of government forces. Ankara has accepted over 3,000 refugees from Jisr al-Shughour who are desperate to escape certain slaughter; it is not prepared to take on tens or possible hundreds of thousands of Syrians fleeing from larger towns like Idlib, Maarat al-Numaana and the Kurdish regions abutting the Turkish border. 2. To mark out a military zone on the Syrian side of the border where the Red 3. Next week, the Turkish army will establish a military buffer zone in the Kurdish region of northern Syria near its main town, Qamishli. The Erdogan government will be taking the chance of Assad deciding that the Turkish military incursion is an act of war.
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #16 "I s'pect you do too" I s'pect it doesn't, Bad. Though I wish it would go back to goat-bothering and leave us alone. :-( |
| Posted by: Barbara 2011-06-12 22:09 |
| #15 Srsly, JUSTICE I have better things to do than to moderate your comments and I s'pect you do too. You should do them. |
| Posted by: badanov 2011-06-12 22:05 |
| #14 I think it's because both ends are dumb |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-06-12 22:02 |
| #13 ya ever flush a JUSTICE turd , and it comes back? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-06-12 22:00 |
| #12 See also WAFF > TURKEY MULLS BUFFER ZONE ON SYRIAN BORDER, for Syrian refugees as protected by Turkish forces. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-06-12 21:16 |
| #11 ...Iraq. Even in the condition they're in now, they are light years beyond any other Arab army in terms of placing training and skill above political and religious reliability. They've also been taught that their loyalty is to the Nation above Party and Faith - something no other Arab army can say. The trouble is we don't know yet whether or not they've learned that lesson. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2011-06-12 20:36 |
| #10 OK Mike - the ONE is obvious, but who is the second maybe "very soon"? |
| Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2011-06-12 20:15 |
| #9 "DEBKAfile's exclusive sources " This means that the story is false. I have never in my entire life seen a "DEBKA exclusive" that turned out to be true. This story has a 99.9999% probability of having been made up by the person writing it in order to get web views to the site. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2011-06-12 19:48 |
| #8 debka... needs alot of salt, as usual |
| Posted by: 746 2011-06-12 19:19 |
| #7 From Moose's link Premier Erdogan underlines importance of boosting cooperation with Iraq Tighter turbans in Tehran. Almost as if Erdogan is daring the Mullahs to attack him so he can call Nato's obligation to defend him and after the victory become caliph. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2011-06-12 19:15 |
| #6 VERY interesting, if true. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2011-06-12 18:42 |
| #5 Turkish Press |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-06-12 18:04 |
| #4 I've been watching the English language Turkish news sources, and so far nothing. Hurriyet Daily News Today's Zaman |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-06-12 18:02 |
| #3 Turbans tighten in Tehran. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2011-06-12 17:48 |
| #2 Hmmmmm. Want to see Pencilneck overthrown and his baathists strung up, I'd also like to see Yippy bloodied and humiliated. A quandary |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-06-12 16:26 |
| #1 ...Go to Jim Dunnigan's priceless A Quick And Dirty Guide to War for a very good explanation of a difference between armies and 'police armies'. In the Middle East there is exactly ONE professional army whose job is to defend its people and not keep them down. There may be two very soon, but the jury really is still out on that. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2011-06-12 16:25 |