Syria And Turkey Are On The Brink Of All-Out War -- David Blair, The Telegraph
If anyone believed that Syria’s bloodshed would stay inside the country’s borders, the events of the last week should have put them right. I’m in southern Turkey, near the frontier with Syria, and this area feels like the new front line of the battle against Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Convoys of Turkish army vehicles ply the roads down to the border and, quietly, civilians are trickling away to safer areas.
The reason is simple: cross-border artillery and mortar bombardments have become daily events. Last Friday, I went to the scene of the bloodiest incident so far, when a Syrian mortar bomb landed outside a family home in the Turkish town of Akçakale. By malign chance, a mother, her six daughters and a female relative happened to be outside, making dinner under an olive tree, when the weapon exploded beside them. They were, quite simply, cut to pieces. When I arrived, a severed human finger, covered in flies, was still lying on the ground. Three of the girls survived with critical injuries; the mother, three daughters and the visiting relative were all killed.
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My Comment: Turkey is supporting the Syrian rebels, Syria is supporting certain Kurdish separatist groups .... in short .... both are at war with each other but through proxies. Can this last? Probably not .... but before they take the step to escalate their border conflict, I do expect Turkey to accelerate their support of the Syrian Free Army by supplying them with heavy weapons, and Syria will probably respond likewise to the Kurds (if they still can).
Update #1: Why Syria's regional spillovers could prompt intervention -- Ian O. Lesser, Christian Science Monitor
Update #2: Turkey's army on high state of readiness, first step for Syria no-fly zone -- Debka
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