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Passengers report abuse as Turkey intercepts Syria jet

Oct 12

Posted by Michael Collins in Big Money, Syria, Turkey, War (endless) | Comments off

Re-posted by >Michael Collins

Image: A Syrian passenger plane which was forced to land sits at Esenboga airport in Ankara October 10, 2012. Turkey scrambled fighter planes to force a Syrian passenger plane en route from Moscow to land in Ankara on Wednesday and banned Turkish civilian aircraft from flying in Syrian airspace, state-run TRT television said. REUTERS/Cem Oksuz/Anadolu Agency

 

(Beirut, Alakhbar,  October 11)  Passengers inside a Syrian plane intercepted by Turkish jets Thursday told Russia Today security forces forced the crew and passengers to sign papers suggesting the plane made an emergency landing and that no Turkish military were part of the incident.

“Four people onboard have been beaten up, two crew and two passengers, as they tried to force them to sign documents,” Sherin Azis, a flight attendant told RT by phone.

“If we do not agree to these terms, they will take the captain kind of hostage,” Fatima al-Salman, a passenger and mother of three told RT. Read the rest of this entry »

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Turkey Hones Its Killing Skills

Oct 7

Posted by Michael Collins in Syria, War (endless) | Comments off

Published Saturday, October 6, 2012
Source URL: http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/turkey-hones-its-killing-skills

On October 4, the Turkish daily Sözcü proclaimed on its website [2]: “We hit Syria!”

Numerous Syrian soldiers were reported dead as a result of the hit, which took place in response to a Syrian mortar strike that killed a woman and four children, all from the same family, in the Turkish border town of Akçakale. The hit stands to be repeated now that the Turkish parliament has officially authorized [3] future military action against its southern neighbor.

To some observers, this authorization may appear redundant. It is common knowledge that Turkey is playing host to anti-Syrian regime combatants, who stage incursions from Turkish territory, and, as the British Independent noted [4] in June of this year: Read the rest of this entry »

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Turkey Plays Lee Harvey for NATO Plotters

Oct 6

Posted by Michael Collins in Big Money, Syria | 1 Comment

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(Washington, DC 10/6) The United States and European Union are setting the stage for a Syrian invasion. (Image)

Turkey is the fall guy.

The Turkish parliament provided Prime Minister Recep Erdoğan with a broad authorization “to make the necessary arrangements for sending the Turkish Armed Forces to foreign countries” Hurriyet, October 4, 2012. The vote was on party lines with the dominant AKP party forming a majority. Muharrem İnce of the CHP opposition party said: “This motion has no limits. You can wage a world war with [it].”

The warning about the road to war may be near reality. McClatchy Newspapers just reported the following:

ISTANBUL — One day after winning blanket authority to send forces into Syria, Turkey’s prime minister warned Friday that his country is “not far from war” and said that it would be a “deadly mistake” for the Syrian government to test Turkey’s will. McClatchy Newspapers, October 6, 2012 Read the rest of this entry »

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What if the Empire Project Fails in Syria?

Aug 14

Posted by Michael Collins in Big Money, Syria, War (endless) | Comments off

By Michael Collins

Al Jazeera’s weekend coverage of the critical battle for Aleppo, Syria reveals a major obstacle for the United States-NATO Empire Project. Hardly anyone in Aleppo is signing up to fight with rebels.

Syrian rebels get limited support in Aleppo, Al Jazeera, August 11

Reporter Anita McNaught: “[The rebels] know they have to win if the revolution is to succeed but Aleppo was slow to demonstrate any widespread support for the opposition.” The reticence was due to fear of Syria’s intelligence service a local claimed.

McNaught followed up: “Why now, when the Free Syrian Army was so quickly consolidating its hold, were its ranks not being swelled by volunteers from the city?”

One of the rebels (gesturing in image) responded: “They are afraid of the situation now. It’s new to them. It’s not like the countryside all around here which has had time to get used to the fighting.”  Trauma requires practice.

The government of Qatar owns Al Jazeera. Qatar partnered with NATO in Libya by providing troops on the ground and cash to the Libya rebels. The built in bias gives credibility to the claim of tepid local support. Like the people of Damascus who also kept their distance from rebels, Syrians in Aleppo are not consumed by anti-regime passion. That may have something to do with public polling showing that “most Syrians are in favour of Bashar al-Assad remaining as president.” Read the rest of this entry »

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Turkey – Running its Own Gauntlet

Aug 10

Posted by Michael Collins in Middle East, Syria, War (endless) | Comments off

By: Hüsnü Mahalli  alakhbar english
August 9, 2012   Creative Commons
(Turkey: Running its Own Gauntlet
Turkey has burnt all its bridges with its neighbors – Iran, Iraq, and Syria – in a bid to ride the wave of the Arab Spring. Now, Ankara fears that Kurdish separatists will come to power if Assad’s regime collapses in Syria.

Istanbul – From the onset of events in Syria, Ankara has displayed relative caution in its relationship with Tehran. But now that the government of Recep Tayyib Erdogan has joined a “Sunni front” with Arab gulf countries, Ankara is being more direct with its Shia neighbor.

Chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces Hassan Firouzabadi recently blamed Turkey, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia for the bloodshed in Syria.

The Turkish government instantly jumped to respond to Firouzabadi’s accusations, and at the same time to remarks made earlier by senior Iranian envoy and chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili while on a visit to Damascus.

First came a declaration from Erdogan, followed by a more explicit position from his foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu. The latter accused Iran of complicity in Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s slaughter of the Syrian people. Read the rest of this entry »

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Thinking the unthinkable in Turkey – What if Assad Survives?

Aug 8

Posted by Michael Collins in Big Money, Syria, War (endless) | Comments off

If saying it were so could make it so, the Syrian government would have toppled by now.  United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has called for Assad to leave Syria at nearly every stop on her not so diplomatic missions of late.  She and the NATO countries support the Syrian rebels.  According to the NATO storyline, it seems almost inconceivable that Assad can survive.  The article re-posted below tells a different story.  Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan will blame Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu sooner or later for the problems to date or, most certainly the reporter points out, for any outright failure of Turkey’s deep involvement in the internal affairs of its neighbor to the south, Syria.  Of note, the foreign minister has behaved oddly lately.  He visited the Kurdish section of Iraq without informing the government of Iraq, which is furious over the incident.  

From Alakhbar English edition, Creative Commons license

Davutoglu: Betting on the Fall of Assad

By: Hüsnü Mahalli

Published Tuesday, August 7, 2012

It now appears that the political future of Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu very much depends on the fate of Syria. If the Assad regime falls, then Davutoglu may very well become prime minister. But if the regime survives, Turkey’s top diplomat will be scapegoated and possibly sacked.

Istanbul – Gursel Tekin, the deputy chairman of the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has predicted that the Turkish FM Ahmet Davutoglu will be sacked after implicating Turkey in the Syrian crisis. Tekin added that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is planning to get rid of Davutoglu soon. Read the rest of this entry »

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Syrian Rebels Execute Government Prisoners and More on the Assault by Proxy

Aug 5

Posted by Michael Collins in Big Money, Corruption, Intelligence, Syria, War (endless) | Comments off


McCatchy Newspapers broke the code of silence and featured atrocities committed by the Syrian rebels. Even though the rebels are attacking the Syrian state, an act of terror in and of itself, the Western media has focused on acts by the government of Syria. UN and NGO rebel cheerleaders for the invasion by proxy are backing off somewhat.   UN Secretary General Moon seemed to chastise the rebels for their wanton violence (see full McClatchy article) and Amnesty International provided a belated caution about rebel violence.

I the last few days, Russia offered Syria fuel in exchange for crude oil.  China announced continued backing for the Syrian regime.  India helped stop another United Arab League pro rebel resolution.  Israel is concerned about al Qaeda terror attacks originating from the ranks of the rebels in Syria. Most pertinent for we the people is the speculation that the president is trying to get President Erdogan of Syria to deliver the beat down necessary for the current regime.

This week, watch as the U.S. corporate media conflates sovereign rights for self defense with “a massacre” as the Syrian Army recovers its second city, Aleppo.  Should the Syrian government reward the rebel invasion by simply giving them the city?

Accounts of Syria rebels executing prisoners raise new human rights concerns

By Hannah Allam and Austin Tice  McClatchy Newspapers

Friday, August 3, 2012″WASHINGTON — Syrian insurgents fighting to unseat President Bashar Assad face a growing list of accusations that they’ve carried out executions and torture, muddying the Western narrative of a heroic resistance force struggling against a vicious regime.The issue of rebel conduct has come to the forefront this month largely because of a video posted online showing the aftermath of apparent executions of pro-Assad militiamen during the rebels’ capture of an intelligence center in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city. Read the rest of this entry »

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