Turkey Deploys Tanks, Missiles To Syrian Border
Xinhua News Agency
October 6, 2012
Turkey deploys military vehicles along border with Syria
ANKARA: Military vehicles of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) were deployed in southeastern Turkey along the border with Syria on Saturday, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.
The vehicles sent to the town of Suruc in the southeastern Sanliurfa province included a large number of tanks and missile defense systems, according to the report.
Turkey and Syria have been exchanging fire sporadically on the border for four days after a mortar shell from the Syrian side fell Wednesday in the Turkish border town of Akcakale in Sanliurfa province and killed five Turks.
The Turkish government said Wednesday in a statement that “Our armed forces in the border region have given the required response in line with the rule of engagement. Targets in Syria, which were detected by radar, were hit by shelling.”
“Turkey will never remain unresponsive against these sorts of provocations of the Syrian regime within the framework of rules of engagement and international law,” the statement said.
In an emergency session on Thursday, the Turkish parliament approved a motion for cross-border military operations inside Syria.
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RT
October 6, 2012
Shelling resumes at Turkish-Syrian border – reports
The Turkish military reportedly fired at Syria on Saturday morning in response to mortars from Syria landing near a Turkish farm. If follows a similar incident on Friday.
…RT’s correspondent Paula Slier reports that the shelling of Turkish territory is done from a Syrian region controlled by rebel forces, which prompts some observers to speculate that the rebels are trying to provoke their ally Turkey into a military intervention against the government of Bashar al-Assad.
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Xinhua News Agency
October 6, 2012
Russia urges Turkey to exercise restraint amid tensions with Syria
MOSCOW: Russia on Friday urged Turkey to restrain from any step that may further aggravate its border tensions with Syria.
“We hope that the Turkish side would exercise restraint and would not undertake any step that may further aggravate the situation in the region,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement posed on its official website.
The ministry said that Moscow has already taken notice of statements by officials from the Turkish government and the Foreign Ministry that Ankara would do its best to prevent the escalation of tensions and would coordinate its policy on Syria with the international community.
“Russia continues calling for a peaceful settlement to the crisis in Syria by the Syrians themselves in strict compliance with the UN Security Council resolutions and the Geneva communique, ” the ministry added.
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Itar-Tass
October 6, 2012
Russia sends relief supplies to Syria
MOSCOW: The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations has sent relief supplies to Syria. The Russian emergency airplane Il-76 took off at 06:00 Moscow time on Saturday from the Ramenskoye airfield in the Moscow Region to Damascus, the information department of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations reported. “The airplane is carrying about 25 tonnes of relief supplies,” the information department said.
This is already the third batch of relief supplies for Syria over the past month. Two Russian emergency airplanes have earlier brought about 80 tonnes of food products to Damascus.
