Sunday, June 24, 2012

2- Turkey Vows Response to Syria Shooting Down Their Fighter Jet Friday


Turkey Vows Response to Syria Shooting Down
Their Fighter Jet Friday
Retaliatory Action Could Be Diplomatic or…
Sunday, June 24, 2012
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Image credit-Turkey Air Force- F-4-Phantom Fighter Jet
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* CBC News had this AP report posted up early Saturday morning and it starts off like this… Turkey's president says his country would take the “necessary” action against Syria, a day after Damascus said it had shot a Turkish military plane that had entered its air space… Abdullah Gul said Saturday that Turkey was still trying to establish the exact circumstances of the incident but conceded the jet may have strayed into Syrian air space. He's convening another security meeting Saturday… Germany and Iraq urged Turkey and Syria to remain calm and not let the unrest in Syria become a wider conflict in the area…
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* LATimes.com had this report posted up on their website early this Sunday morning and it goes in part like this. …Turkey has said it would act “with determination” once the facts were clarified… Turkey is a NATO member and was probably consulting the United States and other allies before deciding how to respond. But there was no public indication that Turkey was seeking support from North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies for retaliatory action
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POST UPDATE:
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
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* Google had the following AP report posted mid Tuesday afternoon and it starts off like this… Turkey warned Syria on Tuesday to keep its forces away from the countries' troubled border or risk an armed response -- a furious reply to the downing of a Turkish military plane last week by the Damascus regime… NATO backed up Turkey and condemned Syria for shooting down the plane but stopped short of threatening military action, reflecting its reluctance to get involved in a conflict that could ignite a broader war…
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* NYTimes.com reports it this way… Buoyed by support from his country’s NATO allies, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Syrian forces on Tuesday to stay clear of their troubled border or face a Turkish military response to any perceived threat, following the disputed downing of a Turkish warplane…
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POST UPDATE:
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
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* AsiaOne.com reports… Turkey is not going to war with neighboring Syria over the shooting down of a Turkish warplane, its prime minister said Wednesday but analysts expect a higher risk of clashes on the border…
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As said, all this mess will be settled through Diplomatic efforts -- NOT Military Might. That is as long as another shoe doesn’t drop on the situation all of a sudden, spinning everything out of control. In that part of the world… one never really knows.
AubreyJ………
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