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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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…
Read the rest at link below…
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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…
Read this
report in full at link below…
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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…
Read the
full report at link below…
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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…
Read the
rest at link below…
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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…
Read this
report in full at link below…
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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………
ROMNEY2012
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