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Turkey to send troops into Syria. Syrian helicopters machine-gun protesters

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A new and dramatic turn in the Syrian crisis;: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Friday night, June 10, ordered his army to move into northern Syria where battles were blazing in Idlib, Maarat al-Numaan and Jisr al-Shuhour. debkafile's exclusive sources report that the prime minister's office and high command in Ankara are still working out how to define the Turkish military mission in Syria. One proposal is to evoke UN Security Council's 1973 resolution which mandated the NATO operation in Libya to protect civilian lives against Col. Qaddafi.
Turkey would be acting to defend Syrian civilians against a crackdown which Erdogan called barbaric.

Ankara decided on military intervention Friday night, two days before Turkey's general election, after learning about the latest turn in the showdown between the Syrian government and the opposition.
Most of the day's reporting focused on the small northern town of Jisr al-Shughour near the Turkish border, where tanks blasted residential areas Friday night and killed an estimated 28 civilians to punish its residents for the 120 officers and soldiers killed in clashes with protesters Monday, June 6.
Away from the limelight, heavy fighting also raged in Idlib, west of Syria's second largest town Aleppo, and Maarat al-Numaan, a small western market city located on the highway between Aleppo and Hama.

In these places, the Syrian army encountered the guns of a Muslim Brotherhood militia fighting alongside a group of defecting soldiers, according to our military sources.
In the late afternoon, Assad sent tanks and attack helicopters armed with heavy machine guns to strike rebel positions. The casualty toll in this northern battleground is believed to be the highest of any day since the start of the uprising in early April.
The Turkish expeditionary force in Syria will have three missions:

1. To stem the swelling stream of Syrian refugees fleeing massacre at the hands of government forces. Ankara has accepted over 3,000 refugees from Jisr al-Shughour who are desperate to escape certain slaughter; it is not prepared to take on tens or possible hundreds of thousands of Syrians fleeing from larger towns like Idlib, Maarat al-Numaana and the Kurdish regions abutting the Turkish border.
2. To mark out a military zone on the Syrian side of the border where the Red Crescent will set up camps for Syrian refugees to shelter under Turkish army protection;
3. Next week, the Turkish army will establish a military buffer zone in the Kurdish region of northern Syria near its main town, Qamishli.

The Erdogan government will be taking the chance of Assad deciding that the Turkish military incursion is an act of war. Fighting would then break out between the two armies.

DEBKAfile, Political Analysis, Espionage, Terrorism, Security
 
can some turkish friends confirm this! i didn't watch turkish news today so i dont know and i cant trust this source!
 
can some turkish friends confirm this! i didn't watch turkish news today so i dont know and i cant trust this source!

Government sources told a leading Turkish newspaper that soldiers could be sent in to Syria to set up a "safe haven" under plans being considered should the flood of those fleeing the fighting worsened.

"We would close the border but we cannot turn our back," a Turkish official told the newspaper, Hurriyet. "If chaos starts, then we will have to form a security zone or a buffer zone inside Syrian territory."

The suggestion, which would be a marked escalation of the crisis and seriously alarm Damascus, came as Turkey faced pressure to take tougher action over the crisis in a neighbour until recently seen as an ally.

Turkey to create military 'buffer zone' within Syria for refugees - Telegraph

My opinion of Erdogan just went up by 100% thank god some one is doing somethingto help these people seems like its 1982 all over again.
 
The power of good, and god..... you?

So warriors of Goodness does God almighty also give you the manuscript on how to conduct against the evil.If not than I suppose you will be accountable.Get ready for that also because God will ask you not back you there.
 
It is amusing, how just a month ago Syria and Turkey were becoming best friends and few weeks ago Erdogan refused to call this slaughter by it`s name...
Well at least he is doing something now.
 
It is amusing, how just a month ago Syria and Turkey were becoming best friends and few weeks ago Erdogan refused to call this slaughter by it`s name...
Well at least he is doing something now.

apparently assad cares more about killing his people and stay in power than friendship! i hate this guy, gaddafi is way much better than him!

i also read that assads troops sliced a womens breasts in one occation!
 
i have an article but it is in norwegian hope you can read or translate

Tyrkia vil gå inn i Syria med nødhjelp - VG Nett om Syria

Turkey will enter the Syrian area of ​​humanitarian aid to refugees there. North of Syria has the government army's tanks and troops consolidated their positions around the city Maarat al Numaan.

The Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Thursday that the government has decided to send supplies to thousands of people have gathered on the Syrian side of the border. These refugees will receive food and other essential things, he stated.

- More than 10,000 people are currently just over the border to our own areas, on the other side of the barbed wire. We have decided to help our Syrian brothers to meet the great need for food, said Davutoglu.

Syrian armored forces and other government military units Thursday reinforced positions around Maarat al Numaan, located west of Syria about 250 kilometers north of the capital Damascus. The town of Khan Sheikhoun tre mil farther south are under siege.

The operations that President Bashar al-Assad and his government has taken is supposedly directed against armed gangs. The offensive has triggered a large flow of refugees towards the Turkish border.
 
apparently assad cares more about killing his people and stay in power than friendship! i hate this guy, gaddafi is way much better than him!

i also read that assads troops sliced a womens breasts in one occation!

All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ...
 

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