Turkish daily: Turkey urges stronger stance against Syria after US
accusations of chemical weapon use
propaganda alert
compiled by Cem Ertür
14 June 2013
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excerpt from: Turkey
urges stronger stance against Syria after US accusations of chemical
weapon use
Hurriyet Daily News, 14 June
2013
Turkey says a U.S.
announcement that it has
conclusive evidence the Syrian regime used chemical weapons against
opposition forces corroborates its own findings and is urging the
international community to take a decisive stance against the regime's
"atrocity." A Turkish Foreign Ministry statement released Friday calls
on the international community to "unite and openly manifest its
stance" against Syrian President Bashar Assad. It stated the regime's
attacks must be halted and a "democratic transition process" must start
in Syria.
Asked about the U.S. assertions, Turkish President Abdullah
Gül said:
“These are very serious assessments. Using chemical weapons
is like a small nuclear weapon. The dimension of this is very
dangerous. We know what has been experienced in Halabja [in 1988]. I am
sure all diplomats and analysts are evaluating these claims. If this
finding has been proved precisely, then it is certain that all things
will enter another phase.”
Turkey has said preliminary tests on some injured Syrians indicated
that chemical weapons had been used.
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Hurriyet
Daily News is
the English-language edition of the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet
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excerpt from: Syrian
rebels to meet West ahead of key G-8 summit
by Sevim Songun Demirezen, Hurriyet Daily News, 14 June 2013The
Syrian rebels will ask Western countries for weapons, a no fly zone,
and to push Russia
to remove Iranian and Hezbollah fighters inside Syria, at a meeting to
be held in Istanbul at the weekend. The meeting will come ahead of next
week’s G-8 meeting, where the Syrian crisis will top the
agenda. Western officials will meet the commander of the Syrian armed
opposition Free Syrian Army (FSA), Salim Idris, on June 15 in Turkey to
discuss new aid, diplomats said.
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excerpts from: Mossad
director meets Turkish intelligence chief
by Eva Tapiero, Jerusalem Post,
13 June 2013
Mossad director Tamir Pardo met secretly with the Turkish National
Intelligence Organization's head, Hakan Fidan, this week in Ankara and
discussed matters related to Syria and Iran, the Istanbul-based
newspaper Hürriyet
reported on Wednesday. [...] Fidan and Pardo shared
information about the situation in Syria as well as the influence of
Iran in the country. It was further reported that sources claimed to
have information that Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Syrian
intelligence are working against Turkey. The two men also discussed
intelligence sharing between their countries.
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excerpt from: Assad
massacres worse than his father's, Turkey PM says
AFP, 4 June 2013"Assad
has surpassed his father in crimes and massacres, and it is not
possible to forgive that. He will have to pay the price sooner or
later," [Turkey's Prime Minister] Erdogan said during a speech in to
the parliament in Algeria, which he is visiting on a four-day tour of
North Africa.
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excerpt from: Drive
East: NATO Shifts Command From Spain To Turkey
Stop NATO, 14 June 2013On
Thursday, 13 June 2013, Headquarters Allied Force Command Madrid (HQ FC
MD) held a ceremony to mark its deactivation. This deactivation is a
part of a major reform process in NATO’s Command Structure to
make it more efficient, flexible, and responsive. Responsibility for
the readiness and support of Land Operations will transfer to Allied
Land Command in Izmir, Turkey.
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by Cem Ertür, Global
Research, 29 May 2013
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