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Breaking - Turkish sources: NATO strike against Syria ruled out; Syria will be warned that another hostile action "will not go unpunished"
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Turkey not to invoke Art. 5, NATO war in Syria as unlikely as ever
NATO is likely to strongly condemn Syria for shooting down a Turkish reconnaissance jet and declare solidarity with Turkey, and may even send a message to Damascus that repetition of such a hostile action will not go unpunished, when it meets on Tuesday.
But the alliance is as reluctant as ever to pledge military action against Turkey's troubled neighbor, and Ankara, conscious of obstacles, is not in the mood to push for such a commitment either.
Turkey called for emergency talks under Article 4 of NATO's founding treaty after its F4 Phantom jet was shot down by Syria on Friday. The meeting has raised the possibility that Ankara may seek NATO intervention by invoking Article 5, the collective defense clause, although Turkish officials have not raised Article 5 as an option.
Ankara is not expected to seek to invoke Article 5 when the NATO envoys meet on Tuesday, because, observers say, without pre-existing consensus within NATO on embarking on a Syria mission, any initiative by Turkey to invoke the collective defense article would be detrimental to both itself and NATO, as this would expose rifts within the alliance and undermine the message of solidarity intended to be conveyed to Damascus.
[link to www.todayszaman.com]
“Under the current circumstances, it is difficult for NATO to agree on a military intervention in Syria,”
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