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Saturday, October 13, 2012

Tension rises Turkey-Syria Ankara sends tanks to the border


Turkey professes not want war with Syria, but he continues to prepare as if about to do it and massing weapons and troops at the border about 250 tanks Crescent are now deployed along the border, press reports from Ankara, while 70 bombers were transferred to Diyarbakir and Malatya and at the base of Kurucek was activated radar missile shield NATO. The tension, then, remains high. It also stands up to the border with Lebanon, after ten rockets jet during an attack on Syrian rebels have fallen out target positions in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, no casualties.  In Turkey, however a turkish F16 has risen in flight from Diyarbakir (two according to some sources) to go `meeting 'to a military helicopter in the area of ​​the village of Damascus Syrian Azmarin - the scene of clashes between Sunni insurgents and government forces while the inhabitants flee to Turkey across the Orontes River - which was too close to the border and move it.  Does not reduce even the level of verbal confrontation between Turkey, Syria and Russia on the incident of the scheduled flight Moscow-Damascus Wednesday intercepted by Turkish fighter, which has created new dangerous sparks in what is now almost a `war 'between the two neighbors Middle East. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Islamic nationalist turkish last night defended the blitz plane - an "act of piracy" for Syria - arguing that the aircraft were "ammunition" and "equipment" Russian military to Syria. Damascus has accused him of "lying" and challenged him to "show" the alleged weapons to "prove what he says." Although Moscow has denied. The Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov then stated today that there were no weapons on board the aircraft but "technical material for electric radar stations": a "dual-use equipment (civil and military, ed), but that is not prohibited '. In short, "a legal load that a Russian supplier Legal delivered to a customer in a legal office." Moscow has also accused Ankara of having endangered the lives of 37 passengers and crew members of the 'crew including 17 Russians.  According to the Turkish press, the material seized was destined for the Syrian air defense.  The likelihood of a war between Ankara, which supports anti-Assad Sunni insurgents, and Damascus is also in place a hard crash in Turkish politics. The opposition is against the war, as according to the polls, a clear majority of the population. The turkish parliament Erdogan's AKP controlled today rejected a motion of censure tabled by opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu against the chief diplomat Ahmet Davutoglu, who is accused of implementing a policy "dangerous and risky for the country." Kilicdaroglu called it "a foreign minister whose incompetence is known to the whole world." Davutoglu has sued.  Between the Western allies of Turkey, which so far have expressed clear support for Ankara, according to several analysts, the growing concern for the line `confrontation 'Erdogan and the danger of a conflict that might inflame the whole Middle East. Tomorrow is expected to hold talks with Davutoglu in Istanbul the international mediator Lakhdar Brahimi on Syria and the German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle.  

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