Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Turkey bombs Syrian targets, calls for urgent NATO summit, NATO ambassadors will meet later Wednesday on Syria.
Turkey bombs Syrian targets, calls for urgent NATO summit, NATO ambassadors will meet later Wednesday on Syria.(AA).Turkey on Wednesday bombed Syria in response to a mortar bomb fired from Syrian territory which killed five Turkish civilians, the prime minister’s office said, and called for an emergency NATO summit to address the crisis. “Our armed forces in the border region immediately retaliated against this heinous attack... by shelling the targets spotted by radar,” Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s office said in a statement. Erdogan’s office added that NATO will hold an urgent meeting to address the crisis. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu had contacted NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen, and "it has been decided that the NATO council meet urgently," the office said in a statement. NATO on Wednesday said it strongly condemned the Syrian shelling of a Turkish town that killed the five Turks, a spokeswoman told AFP. “NATO expresses its strong condemnation,” said Oana Lungescu. “NATO continues to follow the situation closely and with great concern.”Hmmmmm.....And so it begun.Read the full story here.More here from JPost.
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