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Ruling Party MP: Turkish Army Could Reach Damascus In Three Hours
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October 10, 2012
MP: Turkish army can reach Damascus for three hours
R. Hafizoglu
Baku: In the event of a war with Syria, the Turkish army will need only three hours to reach the country’s capital Damascus, Turkish TV channel Beyaz TV quotes MP from the ruling Justice and Development Party Samil Tayar as saying on Wednesday.
MP emphasized that Ankara is fully ready for military actions.
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Last week the Turkish parliament approved issuing a mandate for cross-border military operations against Syria in response to the shelling of the Turkish city of Sanlıurfa by the Syrian army.
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For peace, against war: literary selections 
Turkish army MAY need only three hours to reach Damascus, capital of the Syrian Arab Republic but WILL need at least three decades to get out, mostly in a painfully slow,
never ending burial processions heading to Ankara!
The same applies to bloody criminal NATO!!!
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Turkey will meet the same fate as the Ottoman Empire: extinction as a nation.
Free Turkish-occupied Kurdistan!
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