Turkey military strikes targets inside Syria

[Zephyr]

Turkish military strikes targets inside Syria
Retaliation follows mortar attack from Syrian territory that killed family of five in border town of Akcakale.

Turkish armed forces have launched artillery attacks against Syria in response to a mortar attack which killed five members of the same family in southeastern Turkey.

In a statement on Wednesday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, said the attacks, carried out following radar tracking, were within the rules of engagement.

Separately, Bulent Arinc, deputy prime minister, said: "There has been an attack on Turkey's mainland and its citizens lost their lives. There is definitely a response to it in international law ... We are not blinded by rage but we will protect our rights to the end in the face of such an attack on our soil that killed our people."



Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons, reporting from Antakya on the Turkish-Syrian border, said Arinc's mention of "certain responsibilities" contained within NATO treaty articles, could mean that Turkey responded without consulting international bodies first.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said: "several shells from the Turkish side of the border fell on Syrian military
positions near the village of Tal al-Abyad".

Western officials, from Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO secretary-general, to Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state, quickly condemned the initial attack from the Syrian side of the border, which struck a house in the border town of Akcakale.

Omran Zoabi, Syrian information minister, said Damascus was looking into the origin of the deadly cross-border shelling.

In a statement reported by state television, Zoabi said: "Syria offers its sincere condolences to the families of the victims and to our friends the Turkish people".

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middle...110169706.html

Perhaps time for another war? Since Turkey is part of NATO, and the attacks on Turkey is pretty much an attack on NATO now.

[jutes]

Turkey can handle those little pests on its own just fine thank you.

[A3GTiVR6SC]

^^
Sweet, It's about time. Hopefully Assad's military gets shit on now so the 'rebels' can get the upper hand.

[revelations]

As much as I want Assad to fall, nothing will change in the end. These people have be fighting each other (tribal war, religious war) since the dawn of civilization ....


here is a solution .....

[ZenOps]

Its usually pretty bad when they bring out the artillery instead of just mortars.

Artillery is pretty much indiscriminate killing of people on the wrong side of a line on a map. Mortars are actually much smaller and more limited in range.

[Tarrantula]

Originally posted by revelations
As much as I want Assad to fall, nothing will change in the end. These people have be fighting each other (tribal war, religious war) since the dawn of civilization ....


here is a solution .....

Why does this take me to the department of justice...?

[Grogador]

Originally posted by Tarrantula
Why does this take me to the department of justice...?

You're probably on a special list, it's just a glitch in their monitoring software. Anyway you should be seeing this:

[FraserB]

Zero reason at all anyone should get involved over 5 people. Let Turkey take a few potshots back and call it square. Five people are not worth dragging NATO into this gong show.

[clem24]

Any chance it was the rebels who fired into Turkey to get sympathy and elicit a response?

[revelations]

^ There is always a chance, could be one of Assads own army too, acting alone (to gain sympaty for the rebels).

[Feruk]

Originally posted by A3GTiVR6SC
Sweet, It's about time. Hopefully Assad's military gets shit on now so the 'rebels' can get the upper hand.

Yeah cuz I'm sure they'll be a lot better. Make no mistake, these 'rebels' are no more terrorists than then Iraqi insurgency was. Just a media bias in reporting. These 'rebels' use strategies no different than what the insurgents in Iraq used, and suddenly they're the good guys?

[coupesx]

Originally posted by Feruk

Yeah cuz I'm sure they'll be a lot better. Make no mistake, these 'rebels' are no more terrorists than then Iraqi insurgency was. Just a media bias in reporting. These 'rebels' use strategies no different than what the insurgents in Iraq used, and suddenly they're the good guys?

Agreed. It's also been reported that many of these 'rebels' are actually foreign fighters from surrounding countries. The FSA is more or less a cocktail of fighters from multiple countries, not merely a domestic resistance to Assad.

[ekguy]

just another war...who cares...im sure before we all die we will not see one year that the US isn't at war somehow with whoever...

[Xtrema]

Originally posted by A3GTiVR6SC
^^
Sweet, It's about time. Hopefully Assad's military gets shit on now so the 'rebels' can get the upper hand.

So Egypt, Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq has taught you nothing about 'rebels'?

I'll take a progressive dictatorship over an ass backward theology democracy.

[dj_patm]

I wish that region would just blow itself up.

[dirtsniffer]

Originally posted by Xtrema


So Egypt, Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq has taught you nothing about 'rebels'?

I'll take a progressive dictatorship over an ass backward theology democracy.

[davidI]

Originally posted by clem24
Any chance it was the rebels who fired into Turkey to get sympathy and elicit a response?

Knowing both Turks and Syrians currently living in Dubai, my take is just that Turkey got fed up with all of the refugees pouring into their country.

[civic_stylez]

Turkey has a massive military too.. I wouldnt want to piss them off too much. Turkey could just as easily roll in there and take Syria over.

[ekguy]

Originally posted by dj_patm
I wish that region would just blow itself up.

thank you!!!

[ekguy]

does anyone else wonder what would happen to the middle east if western powers just pulled out and stood by and watched what happened???