Israel sole beneficiary of Turkey-Syria war: Kevin Barrett [video]
PressTV
October 14, 2012
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has called on Turkey to show restraint with regards to its recent conflict with Syria. Westerwelle, who is in Istanbul for talks with Turkish officials, made the remarks in a meeting with his counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu on Saturday. “It is important that no one pours oil on the fire,” he said. However, he backed Turkey’s decision to intercept a Syrian plane flying from Moscow.
Tension between Turkey and Syria soared on October 3 after a mortar shell fired from Syria landed in Turkey’s border town of Akcakale, leaving five people dead. Ankara promptly responded with retaliatory fire that continued through the next days, and Turkish lawmakers also authorized the government to use military force against Syria when deemed necessary.
Press TV has conducted an interview with Kevin Barrett, Islamic Studies expert from Madison, to further discuss the issue.
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Chossudovsky: Western Countries Sabotage Syria Peace Plans [video]
Global Research TV
October 11, 2012
US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says, if elected, he would work with the US allies to arm the insurgents fighting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
This comes as a group of Syrian political parties have held a forum in the country’s capital, Damascus, to discuss a peaceful solution to the unrest in the Arab state.
The participants of the meeting said political dialogue, national reconciliation and fighting terrorism are the sole means to restoring security.
The Syrian figures reiterated that their country is entangled in an international conspiracy by some Arab and Western countries, adding that the unity of the Syrians would foil any plots.
The Syrian government says that the chaos is being orchestrated from outside the country, and there are reports that a very large number of the insurgents are foreign nationals, mostly from Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, and Afghanistan.
Press TV has conducted an interview with Michel Chossudovsky, Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization, from Montreal, to further discuss the issue. The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: When Romney says that Washington’s ambition is to impose American values in Syria, what do you think American values imply exactly?
Chossudovsky: Well, I’m a little bit confused as to Romney’s interpretation of Western values. For me, Western values actually come from Mesopotamia. They come from the ancient Aramaic language which is still spoken in Syria.
That is the cradle of Western civilization. That’s where Christianity was born. That’s where both the New Testament and the Old Testament were written and formulated in Aramaic. And Aramaic is still spoken in Syria.
If Romney wants to support Western values, it’s not by channeling weapons to al-Qaeda and to an opposition which is integrated by terrorists and which, ultimately, these military formations reject what I understand as Western values — which are the values of the Western world but also of the Middle East.
Press TV: We’ve earlier discussed the possibility of a full-scale military intervention by NATO in Syria, starting off with Turkey first getting involved. We’re already seeing shelling across the border.
Right now, as these countries beat the drums of war against Syria, where is the UN Arab League Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi? Where is the so-called six-point peace plan that was put forth by Kofi Annan?
Chossudovsky: Well, it would seem that the same Western countries which have put forth these peace plans are now involved in, ultimately, boycotting or undermining these peace plans.
Turkey has threatened military intervention in Syria based on very tenuous evidence that Syrian armed forces shelled a border city inside Turkish territory. The New York Times says that there’s no evidence one way or the other as to who actually committed these acts of shelling.
Turkey is already within Syrian territory, supporting the rebels, providing them with weapons and so on. I should mention that there’s a lot of opposition inside Turkey to any kind of military adventure which could lead to a full-fledged war with Syria.
Press TV: Let’s hope cooler heads prevail.
Originally aired on PressTV, October 9, 2012
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/10/09/265761/west-sabotages-syrian-peace-plan/
‘We were handcuffed at gunpoint’ – flight engineer of Syria-bound plane [video]
Russia Today
October 11, 2012
Turkey says the Syria-bound passenger plane, that was forced to land in Turkey, was carrying Russian-made munitions. The Moscow airport that dispatched the flight insists there was no illegal cargo onboard. F-16 fighter jets intercepted the flight on its way from Moscow to Damascus, which was carrying 37 people. RT’s Tom Barton reports.
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Chossudovsky: Turkey Already Waging War on Syria [video]
Global Research TV
October 8, 2012
Prime Minister Erdogan of Turkey has told his country to prepare for war against Syria relying on an unproven shelling that landed in Turkey from Syrian territory.
The Turkish military has fired mortar shells into Syria for the fourth day in a row after a number of projectiles slammed into the southern border province of Hatay.
Press TV has interviewed Michel Chossudovsky, Centre for Research on Globalization, Montreal, about the recent steps Turkey has taken and how the plan for NATO involvement inside Syria may unfold.
What follows is an approximate transcript of the interview.
Press TV: Five days of military strikes and now the Turkish prime minister is calling on his country to prepare for war.
With the way things have gone so far, would Turkey had come to this regardless of the mortar that fell in from Syria?
Chossudovsky: Well, this has been a hidden agenda for quite some time. The war on Syria is already de-facto because Turkey is supporting the Free Syrian Army; it’s training the rebels; it’s allowing for the influx of mercenaries through its territory; it is providing logistics to the terrorists inside Syria; and it has Special Forces also within Syrian territory.
And I should say that the military high command has concern that it’s supporting the Muslim Brotherhood as well involved in insurrection. So the war is de-facto.
The incident is being used as a pretext when in fact even according to the Western media, we do not know who is behind this shelling incident inside Turkish territory.
The Ankara government blames Damascus; it blames the Syrian armed forces, but if you look at some of the press reports emanating from the New York times on the one hand and the German media, there is absolutely no proof that these shots were actually done by the Syrian governmental forces.
And they could have been done by the Free Syrian Army. They could also be used deliberately as a pretext to enable Turkey to proceed to the next phase of this war.
Now what is also of course very disturbing is the fact that Turkey as a member of NATO may well invoke Article 5 of the Washington Treaty, which stipulates that an attack on one member is an attack on all members. It’s the doctrine of collective security and this might be the first step for a NATO involvement.
Press TV: That leads me to my next question, do you think that through this escalation of this conflict we are going to see direct NATO involvement, because we are already getting reports that NATO artillery and weapons are already being used by the Turkish military in their shelling?
Chossudovsky: Well, it’s clear that Turkey is already involved. Turkey is already involved inside Syria.
Now what I think is possible is that Turkey is going to demand the formation of some kind of a buffer zone, which essentially means the occupation of certain border areas of Syria. This has been on the drawing boards of military planners for quite some time. Turkey has territorial aspirations as far as Syria is concerned. But it is more than that.
The coast line, which links Turkey to Lebanon and Israel going through Syrian territory. This is also an objective, to gain control over that coastline.
In other words, we have to understand that Turkey is a major military power in the region; it is involved in the conflict; it is supporting mercenary fighters inside Syria; and there is the distinct danger of military escalation not only in terms of Turkish regular forces, which are now entering officially into Syrian territory, but also that this might extend to a subsequent NATO involvement under the doctrine of collective security.
Originally aired on PressTV, October 8, 2012
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/10/08/265596/turkey-has-territorial-aspirat…
Journalist Almost Assasinated for Exposing Turkey Delivering Weapons to Syrian Insurgents [video]
Syrian Girl
October 3, 2012
Lebanese Journalist for Al Jadeed TV, Yumna Fawaz was embedded with Syrian opposition groups on the Syria-Lebanese border. When she witnessed Turkish officers distributing weapons to insurgent groups inside Syria, as a result she was taken hostage by the Turkish officers and her video tapes seized. The intention may have been to execute and silence her and blame the Syrian government, because at the same her station received news from the Free Syrian Army claiming that she has been killed by the Syrian government. A phone call may have saved her.
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Syria Does Not Want a War With Turkey – Ziad Fadel [video]
108morris108
October 4, 2012
Syria Will Not Be The West’s Failed State, If a War with Turkey developed then Iran and the Russian Bear would enact their military obligations and support Syria.
Turkey Syria Border Attack False Flag Planned in Advance by NATO [video]
Syrian Girl
October 4, 2012
Syria has continuously defeated the terrorists inside Aleppo. The Army has held together, defections were too few. NATO has to find another way to attack Syria. One was to accuse her of firing mortars into turkey as a pretext for Turkey to Attack start artillery strikes into Syrian territory. The scenario is very much what was detailed in the brookings institute report, as pointed out by Toni Cartalucci from Land destroyer. http://landdestroyer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/turkey-attempts-to-trigger-war-vs…
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