Politics

Turkey calls for attack on the war against Syria

UN asked

USPA NEWS - Turkey has called for the cross-border attack by Syria to the UN Security Council. In addition, the government wants the Parliament to be able to engage the authority, in the neighboring country militarily.
In a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council President, Ambassador Gert Rosenthal Guatamalas, appreciated Turkey's UN Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan the incident on Wednesday as an "act of aggression" against Syria, Turkey. When the mortar attacks by Syrian troops on Turkish territory there had been about "blatant violations of international law".

A vote in the UN Security Council demanded by Turkey condemnation of Syria's "aggression" has been postponed to Thursday. According to diplomats, the Security Council could not initially agree on a statement condemning the Syrian attack "in the strongest terms".
Attacks are "deemed necessary"
The Turkish government will ask Parliament to approve military action in Syria. The Constitution allows military operations abroad only with parliamentary approval. The mandate of the Turkish army would, according to media operations in Syrian airspace, permit in Syrian waters and on Syrian territory.

Turkey strengthened border troops
On Wednesday in the Turkish border town Akcakale grenades were smashed and five civilians were killed and ten other people were injured. Turkey then launched reprisal attacks in Syria. Security sources, was reported to Turkey strengthens its number of soldiers along the border.
In Turkish reprisals on Syrian soil in the night on Thursday, several soldiers of the regime were killed, reported the opposition Observatory for Human Rights in London. The soldiers had been stationed at a post near the border town of Tel Abyad, it said. More than a hundred Turkish schools are closed because of the fighting in the area for two weeks.

Spindelegger syrichen condemns attack
"We condemn the Syrian attacks on Turkey with great vehemence," said Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister from Austria Michael Spindelegger: "Our sympathy goes to the families of the five Turkish citizens who have died in the attack were killed."
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