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Turkey warns against further attacks
Sat, 06 October 2012
Opposition fighters capture air defence base near Damascus ISTANBUL/BEIRUT Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan yesterday warned his country was not far from war with Syria following cross-border attacks this week words which highlighted the danger that the uprising against Syrian President Bashar Al Asaad will drag in its neighbours.
In a belligerent speech to a crowd in Istanbul, Erdogan warned the Assad government it would be making a fatal mistake if it picked a fight with Turkey. The speech followed a Syrian mortar barrage on a town in southeast Turkey that killed five people on Tuesday. Turkish artillery bombarded Syrian military targets on Wednesday and Thursday in response, killing several Syrian soldiers, and the Turkish parliament has authorised cross-border military action in the event of further aggression.
We are not interested in war, but were not far from it either, Erdogan said in his speech. Those who attempt to test Turkeys deterrence, its decisiveness, its capacity, I say here they are making a fatal mistake. At the United Nations, the Security Council condemned the original Syrian attack and demanded that such violations of international law stop immediately.
After hours of haggling between Turkeys Western allies on the Security Council and longtime Syria backer Russia, the top UN body issued its statement, which although toughly worded was a rung down from a formal resolution. The members of the Security Council condemn in the strongest terms the shelling by the Syrian armed forces, the statement said. The text also urged restraint and Guatemalas ambassador to the United Nations, the current council president, said this applied to both Syria and Turkey.
Nearly all of the strongly worded message, however, was aimed at Syria. Saying the shelling highlighted the grave impact the crisis in Syria has on the security of its neighbours and on regional peace, the council demanded that such violations of international law stop immediately and are not repeated. UN Chief Ban Ki-Moon urged maximum restraint, warning of the risks for the entire region.
The secretary general calls on all concerned to abandon the use of violence, exercise maximum restraint and exert all efforts to move toward a political solution, said his spokesman, Martin Nesirky. The cross-border violence was the most serious so far in the conflict, now in its 19th month, and underscored how it could flare across the 1349442742520897400 region.
The United States has said it stands by its Nato allys right to defend itself against aggression spilling over from Syrias war. Turkey, once an Assad ally and now a leading voice in calls for him to quit, shelters more than 90,000 Syrian refugees in camps on its territory and has allowed fighter army leaders sanctuary. Violence has also spilled over into Lebanon.
More than 30,000 people have been killed in the revolt against Assad, which began with peaceful street protests but is now a full-scale civil war also fought on sectarian lines. Across the country about 180 people were killed in violence on Thursday, including 48 government soldiers, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The fighters said they had captured an air defence base with a cache of missiles outside Damascus a boost to their campaign after a series of setbacks in the capital.
Video posted on YouTube of the aftermath of the assault showed dozens of fighters dressed in army fatigues celebrating as black smoke rose from a military installation behind them.
A middle-aged man holding a rifle says the attack was carried out by an opposition battalion from the town of Douma. It also showed fighters at a weapons cache which included what appeared to be part of a surface-to-air missile.
Although fighting often takes place in the Damascus suburbs, fighter forces have been unable to hold areas for long in the face of government artillery and air power. They have staged devastating bomb attacks on government and military offices in the heart of the city, however.
Syrias ally Russia said 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.
Turkey has made clear it is ready to launch retaliatory strikes again if the war spills over the border but it has also said it will act under international law and in coordination with other foreign powers.Despite his belligerent rhetoric yesterday, Erdogan has said the parliamentary vote was a deterrent and he was not interested in war.
The UN condemnation was issued after two days of negotiations on an initial text rejected by Russia.Consensus within the council on Syria-related matters is unusual and it has been deadlocked over the conflict, 1349442697970889200 with veto-wielding Russia and China rejecting calls to sanction the Damascus government.Meanwhile, Syrian refugees have become the largest group of asylum seekers in Sweden this year, according to data from the countrys Migration Board.
In the year to date, 4,474 people fleeing Syrias civil war arrived in the Nordic country, with 1,506 of those arriving in the past five weeks.
Last year 640 Syrians applied for asylum in Sweden. Damascus crackdown on the uprising has sparked an exodus that has tripled the number of Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries since June to over 300,000, according to the UNHCR. The number is expected to double again by the end of the year, the UN refugee agency said. Reuters
Turkey warns against further attacks | Oman Observer
Sat, 06 October 2012
Opposition fighters capture air defence base near Damascus ISTANBUL/BEIRUT Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan yesterday warned his country was not far from war with Syria following cross-border attacks this week words which highlighted the danger that the uprising against Syrian President Bashar Al Asaad will drag in its neighbours.
In a belligerent speech to a crowd in Istanbul, Erdogan warned the Assad government it would be making a fatal mistake if it picked a fight with Turkey. The speech followed a Syrian mortar barrage on a town in southeast Turkey that killed five people on Tuesday. Turkish artillery bombarded Syrian military targets on Wednesday and Thursday in response, killing several Syrian soldiers, and the Turkish parliament has authorised cross-border military action in the event of further aggression.
We are not interested in war, but were not far from it either, Erdogan said in his speech. Those who attempt to test Turkeys deterrence, its decisiveness, its capacity, I say here they are making a fatal mistake. At the United Nations, the Security Council condemned the original Syrian attack and demanded that such violations of international law stop immediately.
After hours of haggling between Turkeys Western allies on the Security Council and longtime Syria backer Russia, the top UN body issued its statement, which although toughly worded was a rung down from a formal resolution. The members of the Security Council condemn in the strongest terms the shelling by the Syrian armed forces, the statement said. The text also urged restraint and Guatemalas ambassador to the United Nations, the current council president, said this applied to both Syria and Turkey.
Nearly all of the strongly worded message, however, was aimed at Syria. Saying the shelling highlighted the grave impact the crisis in Syria has on the security of its neighbours and on regional peace, the council demanded that such violations of international law stop immediately and are not repeated. UN Chief Ban Ki-Moon urged maximum restraint, warning of the risks for the entire region.
The secretary general calls on all concerned to abandon the use of violence, exercise maximum restraint and exert all efforts to move toward a political solution, said his spokesman, Martin Nesirky. The cross-border violence was the most serious so far in the conflict, now in its 19th month, and underscored how it could flare across the 1349442742520897400 region.
The United States has said it stands by its Nato allys right to defend itself against aggression spilling over from Syrias war. Turkey, once an Assad ally and now a leading voice in calls for him to quit, shelters more than 90,000 Syrian refugees in camps on its territory and has allowed fighter army leaders sanctuary. Violence has also spilled over into Lebanon.
More than 30,000 people have been killed in the revolt against Assad, which began with peaceful street protests but is now a full-scale civil war also fought on sectarian lines. Across the country about 180 people were killed in violence on Thursday, including 48 government soldiers, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The fighters said they had captured an air defence base with a cache of missiles outside Damascus a boost to their campaign after a series of setbacks in the capital.
Video posted on YouTube of the aftermath of the assault showed dozens of fighters dressed in army fatigues celebrating as black smoke rose from a military installation behind them.
A middle-aged man holding a rifle says the attack was carried out by an opposition battalion from the town of Douma. It also showed fighters at a weapons cache which included what appeared to be part of a surface-to-air missile.
Although fighting often takes place in the Damascus suburbs, fighter forces have been unable to hold areas for long in the face of government artillery and air power. They have staged devastating bomb attacks on government and military offices in the heart of the city, however.
Syrias ally Russia said 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.
Turkey has made clear it is ready to launch retaliatory strikes again if the war spills over the border but it has also said it will act under international law and in coordination with other foreign powers.Despite his belligerent rhetoric yesterday, Erdogan has said the parliamentary vote was a deterrent and he was not interested in war.
The UN condemnation was issued after two days of negotiations on an initial text rejected by Russia.Consensus within the council on Syria-related matters is unusual and it has been deadlocked over the conflict, 1349442697970889200 with veto-wielding Russia and China rejecting calls to sanction the Damascus government.Meanwhile, Syrian refugees have become the largest group of asylum seekers in Sweden this year, according to data from the countrys Migration Board.
In the year to date, 4,474 people fleeing Syrias civil war arrived in the Nordic country, with 1,506 of those arriving in the past five weeks.
Last year 640 Syrians applied for asylum in Sweden. Damascus crackdown on the uprising has sparked an exodus that has tripled the number of Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries since June to over 300,000, according to the UNHCR. The number is expected to double again by the end of the year, the UN refugee agency said. Reuters
Turkey warns against further attacks | Oman Observer
