Syrian Attack on Turkish Village

[Unkotare]

It's on now...


Nato and Pentagon condemn Syrian shelling of Turkish village | World news | guardian.co.uk

 

[tjvh]

I'm glad there are still some Countries like Turkey that are willing to stand up for themselves when their citizens get attacked, and murdered... Under Obama, the American Taxpayer's will probably be forced to write another check, and apologize for American citizens getting murdered by Terrorists in our Embassies.

Video: Turkey attacks Syrian targets following deadly mortar attack - Telegraph

 

[FckingAmazing]

Where is NATO , where is UN ??

 

[JWBooth]

Anybody curious as to why Syria would take on the additional pain in the ass that is a cross border war with a bigger and better armed nemesis?

 

[ekrem]

Anybody curious as to why Syria would take on the additional pain in the ass that is a cross border war with a bigger and better armed nemesis?

Akcakale is one of the bigger border crossings into Syria
On Syrian side it's a strategic area because the middle part of Northern Syria is vast empty space.
FSA brought the area (+crossing) under control around 2 weeks ago and since then there's still fighting going on in the area.

Akçakale, Türkei - Google Maps

 

[irosie91]

uhm ........ are anti Bashir people BASING themselves in Turkey? that could do it

 

[waltky]

Turkey Tells Syria: We're Close to War...

Turkey warns Syria more strikes would be fatal mistake
Oct 5, 2012 - But analysts doubt PM Erdogan will go that far

Turkey's prime minister said on Friday his country did not want war but warned Syria not to make a "fatal mistake" by testing its resolve, and its army retaliated for a third day running after more mortar rounds from Syria landed on its soil. In a belligerent speech to a crowd in Istanbul, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that Turkey would not shy away from war if provoked. The speech followed a Syrian mortar barrage on a town in southeast Turkey that killed five people on Wednesday.

Turkish artillery bombarded Syrian military targets on Wednesday and Thursday in response, killing several Syrian soldiers, and the Turkish parliament authorized cross-border military action in the event of further aggression. "We are not interested in war, but we're not far from war either. This nation has come to where it is today having gone through intercontinental wars," Erdogan said in his speech. "Those who attempt to test Turkey's deterrence, its decisiveness, its capacity, I say here they are making a fatal mistake." At least two mortar bombs fired from Syria landed in farmland in Turkey's southern Hatay province on Friday, one of them around 50 meters into Turkish territory, and a military unit responded immediately, Hatay Governor Celalettin Lekesiz was quoted as saying by the state-run Anatolian news agency.

A government official told Reuters there had been similar incidents over the past ten days due to intensifying skirmishes on the Syrian side of the border, and that the Turkish army had been responding in kind. But he said Wednesday's fatal strike on the town of Akcakale had been of a different magnitude. "If there was gunfire, we returned the gunfire, if there was a shell we returned two or three shells, to warn them and deter them. Until Akcakale we were not very concerned that they were deliberate," the official said, asking not to be identified. "Wednesday was different. There were five or six rounds into the same place. That's why we responded a couple of times, to warn and deter. To tell the (Syrian) military to leave. We think they've got the message and have pulled back from the area."

Turkish broadcaster NTV said Syria had given the order for its warplanes and helicopters not to enter an area within 10 km (six miles) of the Turkish border and had ordered its artillery units not to fire shells in areas close to the border. There was no confirmation of this from the Syrian authorities. At the United Nations, the Security Council condemned the original Syrian attack and demanded that such violations of international law stop immediately. The United States has said it stands by its NATO ally's right to defend itself against aggression spilling over from Syria's war. Russia, a staunch ally of Syria, appealed to Turkey to stay calm and avoid any action that could increase tensions. Russia said on Thursday it had received assurances from Damascus that the strike on Turkey had been a tragic accident but Erdogan dismissed it, saying this was the eighth time Syrian mortar rounds had hit Turkish ground.

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Turkey responds to mortar fire from Syria
5 Oct.`12 - Turkey's state-run news agency says Turkish troops have returned fire after a mortar shell from Syria again landed on its territory.

The Anadolu Agency quoted the governor for Hatay province as saying that Turkish troops "responded with fire" after the mortar round landed in a rural area of the province that borders Syria. No one was reported hurt.

Turkish artillery has fired at Syrian targets for two straight days after shelling from Syria killed five civilians in Turkey. Turkey's parliament on Thursday also voted to allow cross border military operations in Syria.

The uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad erupted in March 2011 and has gradually morphed into a bloody civil war, killing more than 30,000 people, according to activists.

Turkey responds to mortar fire from Syria - Yahoo! News

 

[waltky]

Assad tryin' to start a war with Turkey...

Syrian cross-border salvos send message to Turkey
Oct 8,`12 -- Syria's cross-border attacks on Turkey in the past week look increasingly like they could be an intentional escalation meant to send a clear message to Ankara and beyond, that the crisis is simply too explosive to risk foreign military intervention.

With Turkey eager to defuse the crisis, the spillover of fighting is giving new life to a longshot political solution, with the Turks floating the idea of making President Bashar Assad's longtime vice president, Farouk al-Sharaa, interim leader if the president steps aside. A military option - which would involve foreign powers that already have expressed a deep reluctance to getting involved in the crisis - is still not on the table, analysts say, despite six consecutive days of Turkish retaliation against bombardment from inside Syria. "Syria is aware that Turkey cannot go a step further," said Ali Tekin, assistant professor of International Relations at Ankara's Bilkent University. "The Turkish people don't want a war and there are no vital national interests at stake to warrant a war. Syria sees this."

The Syrian conflict has taken a prominent role in the U.S. presidential election at a time when the U.S. and its allies have shown little appetite for getting involved. On Monday, Republican candidate Mitt Romney said the U.S. should work with other countries to arm the Syrian rebels, allowing the rebels to drive Assad from power themselves. Romney did not call for the U.S. to directly arm the Syrian rebels. The most recent flare-up between Syria and Turkey started Wednesday, when a shell fired from Syria slammed into a house in the Turkish border village of Akcakale, killing two women and three children. That set off the most serious and prolonged eruption of violence along the frontier since the uprising began nearly 19 months ago.

Although it was not clear whether Wednesday's shelling was intentional, Turkey responded swiftly by firing back and convening parliament for a vote that authorized further cross-border military operations if necessary. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan cautioned Damascus not to test Turkey's "limits and determination." But the Syrian shelling has continued every day - leading many observers to conclude the acts are intentional provocation. "It's not an accident. You can't send shells across the border by mistake five days in a row," said Mustafa Alani, a Middle East analyst of the Geneva-based Gulf Research Center, just hours before Syrian shelling struck Turkey for a sixth day.

There have been no other reports of casualties from the shelling since Wednesday's deaths. An activist group said Monday the number of people killed in the conflict crossed the threshold of 32,000 over the weekend, and the pace is accelerating. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it counted 32,079 dead as of Sunday - among them 22,980 civilians and civilians-turned fighters, 7,884 members of the Syrian military and 1,215 army defectors fighting alongside the rebels.

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