[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] A top aide of Tayyip Erdogan rejected accusations the Turkish president was ready to pitch the country's armed forces into war in Syria and said any security measures it took would be intended only to secure its southern frontier....the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's main opposition leader said the "drums of war" were beating as part of an effort to bolster Erdogan's authority after the AK Party lost its majority in polls. However,
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package...
armed action across the border in Syria, where Kurdish militia and Islamist
Presidential aide Ibrahim Kalin told a news conference Ankara was in talks with NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
allies over its border security, but it already had the necessary legal justification for moves that would preserve its border security. He gave no details.
"It is not sound to interpret measures which we have taken to secure our border with headlines like 'Turkey is going into a war...Turkey is throwing itself into the fire'," Kalin said.
Turkish newspapers have carried reports that the government is considering creating a buffer zone across the border, days after Erdogan said Turkey would never allow the formation of a Kurdish state along its southern borders.