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regime of trying to spread the unrest in the country to the region, branding the deadly shelling of a Turkish town "a regime plan".
"This incident was a Syrian regime plan," Syrian National Council Chief Abdel Basset Sayda told news hounds at a presser in Istanbul, referring to the Syrian shelling that left five Turks dead in a nearby border town on Wednesday.
"The regime is trying to export the Syrian crisis. He (Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad)
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thinks, that way, he can transform the conflict into a regional one."
Already tense relations between Turkey and Syria hit their lowest following Wednesday's Syrian fire that landed in the border town of Akcakale, killing two women and three children.
It was the first time Turkish nationals were killed by Syrian fire since the uprising in Syria began in March 2011.
Turkish army immediately responded, with parliament passing a mandate enabling cross-border operations inside Syria on grounds of establishing "national security".