{"article":{"id":255799,"heading":"Top US general: Turkey is facing an immediate threat to its Syrian border","author":"Cem Ert\u00fcr","created":"2012-09-20 18:23:03","modified":"2026-10-25 17:02:54","last_modified":"Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:02:54","article":"

\r\nU.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey and\r\nTurkey’s Chief of General Staff Gen.
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\r\nU.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets Turkey's Prime Minister\r\nRecep Tayyip Erdogan at his
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\r\nTop\r\nUS general: Turkey is facing an immediate threat to its <\/span>Syrian border<\/span>
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\r\ncompiled by Cem Ertür
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\r\n19 September 2012
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\r\n1)  Top\r\nUS general Dempsey: Turkey is facing an immediate threat to its Syrian\r\nborder  <\/span>(16\r\nSeptember 2012)
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\r\n2)  Prime\r\nMinister Erdogan: Syrian regimes' deployment of weapons of mass\r\ndestruction <\/span>would be <\/span>one of the biggest threats\r\nto Turkey <\/span> <\/span>(5\r\nSeptember 2012) 
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\r\n3)  NATO\r\nchief Rasmussen: We stand ready to take all necessary steps to defend\r\nTurkey<\/span>  (3 September\r\n2012)
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\r\n4)  List\r\nof senior U.S. officials who visited Turkey recently<\/span>\r\n (August 11th\r\n– September 17th,\r\n2012)
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“[The\r\nTurks] are facing an immediate threat to their southern border [with\r\nSyria]. As a partner [of Turkey] -- bilaterally and also in NATO --\r\nwe’re attuned to it. [...]  This is one of those\r\ntimes when we talk about our shared interests and Turkey’s\r\ninterests in Syria right now are the same as ours. [...] \r\nThere is a clear risk of chemical and biological weapon proliferation\r\nor lack of control, and then there is the risk of [Syrian] ballistic\r\nmissiles. [...]  The threats are to the entire\r\nregion.”
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\r\n[U.S.\r\nJoint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, remarks on the eve\r\nof his talks with Turkey’s Chief of General Staff Gen. Necdet\r\nOzel in Ankara, U.S. State Department website, 16 September 2012<\/span>]
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“One\r\nof the biggest things [i.e. threats], and not only for Turkey, but the\r\nentire region and the world is […] [the Syrian\r\nregime’s] deployment of weapons of mass destruction, and\r\nchemical ones, of course. If the slightest suggestion of such an\r\nattempt should emerge, not only Turkey, but the attitude of the entire\r\nglobe is going to change forever. And that's my biggest concern.\r\n[…]  In the light of the intelligence that we have\r\nreceived so far, they are still being possessed by the [Syrian] regime.\r\n[…]  [I]f you were to ask me if those weapons of\r\nmass destruction could be used against the people of Syria, in the\r\nlight of everything that we have seen so far, I can say, yes, those\r\nweapons can be used against the people of Syria. And this is something\r\nthat slipped out of the tongue of Bashar al-Assad.”
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\r\n[Turkey’s\r\nPrime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, interview with Christiane\r\nAmanpour, <\/span>CNN International's <\/span>'News Stream' programme\r\naired on September <\/span>5th, 2012<\/span>]
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“Of\r\ncourse we stand ready to take all necessary steps to protect and defend\r\nTurkey as an ally within NATO”
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\r\n[NATO\r\nSecretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, interview with Reuters, NATO\r\nheadquarters in Brussels, 3 September 2012<\/span>]
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\r\n[1]  Dempsey in Turkey to\r\ndiscuss Syrian crisis<\/span>
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\r\nby Jim Garamone, US Defense Department website, 16 September 2012
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\r\nhttp:\/\/www.defense.gov\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=117878
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\r\n[2]  News Stream<\/span>
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\r\nCNN International website, 5 September 2012
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\r\nhttp:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/1209\/05\/nwsm.01.html
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\r\n[3]  NATO chief: rogue Afghan\r\nattacks will not hasten pullout<\/span>
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\r\nby Adrian Croft, Reuters, 3 September 2012 
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\r\nhttp:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/09\/03\/us-nato-rasmussen-idUSBRE8820JQ20120903
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\r\nList\r\nof senior U.S. officials who visited Turkey recently:<\/span>
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September\r\n17th\r\n        \r\n  U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey<\/span>\r\nheld talks on Syria with Turkey’s Chief of General Staff Gen.\r\nNecdet Ozel and Defense
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\r\nSeptember 14rd\r\n       \r\nU.S. delegation led by former U.S. Ambassador to\r\nSyria (Jan.- Oct. 2011) Robert Ford<\/span>\r\nand Assistant U.S. Secretary of\r\nDefense for International Security
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 \r\n         \r\n           \r\n           \r\n Affairs Derek Chollet<\/span>\r\nattended the\r\nsecond U.S.-Turkish operational meeting on\r\nSyria     (Ankara<\/span>)
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\r\nSeptember 10th\r\n        U.S.\r\nAssistant Secretary for the Bureau of\r\nPopulation, Refugees, and Migration Anne Richard<\/span>\r\nheld talks on Syrian\r\nrefugees in Turkey     (Istanbul, Adana <\/span>\r\n           \r\n           \r\n          \r\n     and Ankara<\/span>)
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\r\nSeptember 6th\r\n        \r\n U.S. State Department's Special Envoy and\r\nCoordinator for International Energy Affairs Carlos Pascual<\/span>\r\nheld talks\r\non Iraq     (Ankara<\/span>)
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\r\nSeptember 4th\r\n        \r\n U.S. Treasury Department’s Undersecretary for\r\nTerrorism and Financial Intelligence David Cohen<\/span>\r\nheld talks on Iran and\r\nSyria     (Istanbul and Ankara<\/span>)
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\r\nSeptember 3rd\r\n        \r\n CIA director David Petraeus<\/span>\r\nheld talks on Syria\r\nwith Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Foreign\r\nMinister\r\nAhmet Davutoglu and National
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\r\n           \r\n           \r\n      U.S. senators John McCain<\/span>\r\nand Joseph\r\nLieberman<\/span> first conducted a\r\nfact-finding mission, then visited a Syrian\r\nrefugee camp     (Istanbul and Hatay<\/span>)
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\r\nAugust 23rd\r\n        \r\n    U.S. delegation led by U.S. Assistant\r\nSecretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Ambassador Elisabeth Jones<\/span>\r\nattended the first U.S.-Turkish operational
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\r\nAugust 11th\r\n        \r\n    U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton<\/span>\r\nheld\r\ntalks on Syria with Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul, Prime\r\nMinister\r\nRecep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign      \r\n           \r\n           \r\n       \r\n          \r\n Minister Ahmet\r\nDavutoglu     (Istanbul<\/span>)
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\r\nrelated\r\narticles:<\/span>
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\r\nTurkey:\r\nDevastating economic consequences of Syrian crisis and Iran sanctions\r\nregime<\/span>
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\r\nby Finian Cunningham, Global Research, 11 September 2012
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\r\nhttp:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/turkey-devastating-economic-consequences-of-syrian-crisis-and-iran-sanctions-regime\/
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\r\nThe\r\npush to ignite a Turkish civil war through a Syrian quagmire<\/span>
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\r\nby Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Global Research, 16 August 2012
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\r\nhttp:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/the-push-to-ignite-a-turkish-civil-war-through-a-syrian-quagmire\/
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\r\nTurkey:\r\nNATO’s neo-Ottoman spearhead in the Middle East<\/span>
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\r\nby Rick Rozoff, Global Research, 8 August 2012
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\r\nhttp:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/turkey-nato-s-neo-ottoman-spearhead-in-the-middle-east\/
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\r\nClinton\r\ntargets Syria: \"We will go against those that threaten Turkey and\r\nTurkish lives\"<\/span>
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\r\nby Cem Ertür, San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center,\r\n11 June 2012
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\r\nhttp:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2012\/06\/08\/18715010.php
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\r\nTurkish\r\ndaily: Turkey’s plan to finish off Assad<\/span>
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\r\nby Cem Ertür, San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center,\r\n11 February 2012
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\r\nhttp:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2012\/02\/11\/18707124.php
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\r\nTurkey’s\r\nfinal warning to Syria: Tomorrow may be too late for reforms<\/span>
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\r\nby Cem Ertür, San Fransisco Bay Area Independent Media Center,\r\n18 June 2011
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\r\nhttp:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2011\/06\/18\/18682242.php
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