BREAKING: Shell fired from Syria lands on Turkish village, Turkish artillery return fire at Syria

No new casualties on Turkey's side = no escalation.

They'll keep shelling each others field lands unless Syria escalates it again.

Military forces increased on border after PYD creates protection units

[link to www.hurriyetdailynews.com]

It might not be tonight but the shelling is certainly a step towards war.

Turkey fires artillery into Syria after shelling

[link to news.yahoo.com]

Iranians on the move

I wonder what's the Russian plan if Turkey starts invading Syria.

And with hope that Allah will guide those rockets on target.

ask the Black Sea fleet

PITTSBURGH — The Kremlin is watching, European nations are rebelling, and some suspect Moscow is secretly bankrolling a campaign to derail the West's strategic plans.

Syrian rebels have claimed capturing Housam al-Assad, the cousin of President Bashar al-Assad, the Saudi-owned news channel Al Arabiya reported on Sunday.

Assad’s cousin was arrested by the al-Farouq brigade of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), Sheikh Adnan Al Arour, a Sunni Muslim preacher and a major Salafist leader in Syria, announced on his Twitter account.

“Housam al-Assad, the cousin of Bashar has been captured,” Sheikh Arour said.

The 73-year-old Arour fled Syria under the rule of Hafez Al Assad following the 1982 massacre in his hometown of Hama and settled in Saudi Arabia ever since. He has become one of the symbolic figures of the Syrian uprising against the Assad regime.

[link to en.rian.ru]

Panetta: Syria clash with Turkey may escalate

no shit

then it will

I think we must ask this question to Kissinger & co.

‘Turkey, NATO, US escalating war against Syria’

Foreign-backed insurgents in Syria continue to force civilians out of their homes in order to hide inside in the flashpoint northwestern city of Aleppo.

New footage shows the insurgents taking position inside civilian homes as Syrian security forces try to clear the city. Reporters on the ground say most streets are now cut off by militant checkpoints. The armed groups had also used the same tactic in other cities.

Meanwhile, government forces have gained some ground in their house-to-house searches in Aleppo. On Saturday, troops captured the Sakhour neighborhood after days of heavy fighting.

Many people, including large numbers of security forces, have been killed in the turmoil in Syria.

Press TV has conducted an interview with Ralph Schoenman, author and political commentator, to further discuss the issue.

The following is an approximate transcript of the interview.

Press TV: This recent news about Syrian insurgents forcing civilians out of their homes and using them as hideouts for themselves, first of all if you can tell us about how much is this trend growing among insurgents in Syria and second, what happens to the civilians, which are forced out of their homes? What is their fate? To where are they then taken?

Schoenman: Well you are looking here at a long-prepared undertaking by the Turkish government in conjunction with NATO and the United States to escalate the war against Syria in which Turkey has been a key player.

I would like to point out that the incident, which has been used as the pretext for this was a space shell from Syria that killed five people on the Turkish border town of Akcakale on Wednesday.

After that Turkish fighter jets carried out strikes including a Syrian military camp.

But the resolution that was moved to initiate a potential war by the Justice and Development Party, the AKB was interestingly enough prepared already on September 20th.

The actual resolution in parliament was dated 20th of September, which shows they used this incident at Akcakale as a pretext to promote pre-existing plans to obtain authorization for the invasion of Syria.

In fact we have to keep in mind that Turkey has not only urged the establishment of military cargos in no-fly zones in Syria, but Turkey is the host of the Free Syrian Army and the Syrian National Congress, which are the actual operating groups of militia and armed factions that were produced by NATO and Saudi Arabia and Qatar and Libya and the United States through the aegis of Turkey.

So we have to look at this in a proper context. The question as to what is taking place in the areas where Turkey has declared so-called security zones where public entry is forbidden of actually for a period between October 7th and January 7th due to “expensive” military operations are a measure of the extent to which this is a well-prepared war operation.

Turkey declared it will not respect Syria’s borders in pursuing its military campaign against the Kurds and it is using that as an occasion and opportunity to further preparations for war. And the actions that have been taken by the Turkish army against its own population and against the Kurdish minority are part and parcel of that undertaking.

[link to presstv.com]

Last Edited by Phennommennonn on 10/07/2012 04:41 PM

This is very much a strategy of tension

Didn't the USA install a rocketshield in Turkey?

That wouldn't help against mortars I don't think.

Published: September 15, 2011
turkey accepts missile radar for nato defense against iran

[link to www.nytimes.com]

If the Turkish military is humiliated or the country is destabilized, the I can yet see the none-too-stable-themselves Greeks making a move to recapture the land & islands they lost to Turkey in the 1920 war, and even make a move on Istanbul to rename it Constantinople.....DON'T say it couldn't happen!

Iran says could target Turkey missile shield

( Sat Nov 26, 2011)

Iran could target installations in Turkey that are part of a planned NATO missile shield in any future conflict, a senior military official said on Saturday, upping the rhetoric against its neighbor with whom relations have soured in recent months.

O.K.

But with what Army???

I believe the Greeks have some other stuff on their head right now.

The Serbs, Macedonians, Greeks, with their Russian Orthodox allies, have a HUGE grudge against Turkey. Unlike shallow Westerners, these Balkanites actually have a sense of history, with a grudge and memory and desire for revenge that goes back 1000 years.

They can not afford. They are fucking broke.

And don't forget little Bulgaria and Armenia. If they through in their weight, the Doner Kebab eating Turks, including the Turkish minority in Cyprus,would soon be on the ropes: Galipoli 2, but without the Sabbatean Attaturk to save them!

By the terrorist, being supported by the US.

You can't really be sure that anyone died, though the illuminutties don't mind killing people. Remember, the media does what it is told to do. They make up their own story - remember the Bin Laden hoax? - and their own pictures.



Please pray for these crazy people's minds. They think they can run us all into the ground for their own "benefit." Fortunately, though "the mills of God grind slow, [but] they grind exceeding small..." They will learn, eventually, that crime doesn't pay.

They do it because the CIA tells them to.