NATO: Plans in Place to Protect Turkey

[presence]

http://www.thenews.com.pk/article-70875-NATO-to-back-Turkey-over-Syria-spillover

"I would add to that that obviously

Turkey can rely on NATO solidarity,
we have all necessary plans in place
to protect and defend Turkey

if necessary,"

Also carrying the story:


http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=287100

NATO said on Tuesday it had drawn up plans to defend Turkey if necessary

against any further spillover of violence from Syria's border areas

where rebels and government forces are fighting for control.

Erdogan, reacting to six consecutive days where shells fired from Syrian soil have landed on Turkish territory, has warned

Ankara will not shrink from war if forced to act.

It was not clear whether the shells landing on the Turkish side were

aimed at Turkey
or simply the result of government troops overshooting

as they attacked rebels to their north.

No mention there of the substantial possibility that these are FSA mortars crossing the border.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162...rotect-and-defend-turkey-from-syrian-attacks/
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/10/09/242714.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...Syria-launches-attack-says-head-alliance.html

 

[paulbot24]

"substantial" definitely being the key word in the last sentence. Interesting links presence.

 

[presence]

Also note the Jpost phrase:

any further spillover of violence from Syria's border areas

Replaces the actual NATO quote:

if necessary

and that the phrase "any further spillover" is repeated in various media outlets.

"If necessary" and "any further spillover" are qualitatively different.

presence

 

[Republicanguy]

I would expect it. On a Guardian newspaper article I typed my comments, "Time for the Uk to leave the treaty. Thanks" I received thirty nine recommendations on my comment, not enough.

 

[robert68]

"NATO: Plans in Place to Protect Turkey enable increased aggression against Syria."

Fixed.

 

[ClydeCoulter]

Am I seeing this right? (http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/10/09/242714.html)

“It is unbearable for the (Syrian) people to continue like this. That is why I have conveyed to the Syrian government (a) strong message that they should immediately declare a unilateral ceasefire,” he said.

He told a joint press conference in Paris with French President Francois Hollande that the reaction he had got from the Syrian government had been to ask what opposition forces would do if the regime called a truce, AFP reported.

So he talked to the oppositions head

“That is exactly what I have discussed and I am in the process of discussing with the member states of the (United Nations) Security Council and the countries in the region,” he said.

Ban urged “the opposition forces to agree to this unilateral ceasefire when and if the Syrian government declares it” and he called on countries supplying arms to either side to stop in order to ease the suffering of the Syrian people.