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24-06-2012, 08:37 PM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9352797/Syria-Turkey-to-convene-emergency-Nato-meeting.html
Syria: Turkey to convene emergency Nato meeting
Turkey is to convene an emergency session of Nato after declaring that Syria's shooting down of one its fighter-jets amounted to a direct challenge to its national security.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02256/Syria-Turkey_2256499b.jpg
The Turkish government brushed off protestations in Damascus that Friday's incident was an accident, accusing Syria of deliberately bringing down the F-4 Phantom both in international airspace and without warning.
Bringing a potentially dangerous international dimension to the stand-off, Turkey took the highly unusual step of invoking Article IV of Nato's founding charter as it sought Western backing for whatever response it chooses to make.
Article IV allows a Nato member to call for an emergency meeting of the whole alliance if it feels that its "territorial integrity, political independence or security" has been threatened. It has only been invoked once before, when Turkey, fearing a backlash by Saddam Hussein, successfully petitioned the alliance to station anti-missile batteries on its soil in the weeks before the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Nato said its governing body would meet on Tuesday to discuss how to respond.
Underlining Turkish anger, Ahmet Davutoglu, the country's foreign minister also said that a formal protest would be lodged with the United Nations Security Council.
Interesting, but warning bells should be coming for us that we're about to potentially be drawn into another war which is absolutely none of our business. That said, it wouldn't surprise me if this has been a false flag operation - in which Turkey is stretching the truth that it didn't stray into Syrian airspace.
If Turkey did stray into Syrian airspace, then Syria was right to shoot the plane down. But of course, in the world we live in concerning war (WMD, Gulf of Tonkin incident) it's all too common for the politicians to lie to achieve whatever motives they wish to achieve (in this case, the removal of Iran's main partner).
Thoughts?
Syria: Turkey to convene emergency Nato meeting
Turkey is to convene an emergency session of Nato after declaring that Syria's shooting down of one its fighter-jets amounted to a direct challenge to its national security.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02256/Syria-Turkey_2256499b.jpg
The Turkish government brushed off protestations in Damascus that Friday's incident was an accident, accusing Syria of deliberately bringing down the F-4 Phantom both in international airspace and without warning.
Bringing a potentially dangerous international dimension to the stand-off, Turkey took the highly unusual step of invoking Article IV of Nato's founding charter as it sought Western backing for whatever response it chooses to make.
Article IV allows a Nato member to call for an emergency meeting of the whole alliance if it feels that its "territorial integrity, political independence or security" has been threatened. It has only been invoked once before, when Turkey, fearing a backlash by Saddam Hussein, successfully petitioned the alliance to station anti-missile batteries on its soil in the weeks before the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Nato said its governing body would meet on Tuesday to discuss how to respond.
Underlining Turkish anger, Ahmet Davutoglu, the country's foreign minister also said that a formal protest would be lodged with the United Nations Security Council.
Interesting, but warning bells should be coming for us that we're about to potentially be drawn into another war which is absolutely none of our business. That said, it wouldn't surprise me if this has been a false flag operation - in which Turkey is stretching the truth that it didn't stray into Syrian airspace.
If Turkey did stray into Syrian airspace, then Syria was right to shoot the plane down. But of course, in the world we live in concerning war (WMD, Gulf of Tonkin incident) it's all too common for the politicians to lie to achieve whatever motives they wish to achieve (in this case, the removal of Iran's main partner).
Thoughts?