'In an extraordinary session today, the Turkish Parliament gave authority to the government to deploy troops in other countries if and when it finds such an act necessary for national security,' an article by Murat Yetkin published by Hurriyet reads.
'Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan decided to take such a motion for parliamentary approval after a mortar shell from the Syrian side fell onto a house in the Turkish border town of Akçakale, killing five and wounding eight on Oct. 3. There was a similar incident last week killing one, which the Turks had strongly protested.'
'Hours after the second incident, Turkish artillery bombarded targets that the Turkish military considered responsible for the killings, the Prime Minister’s office announced. The Turkish Armed Forces have been on high alert along the 910 kilometer-long border with Syria for half a year now, with clashes between the army of the Bashar al-Assad regime and the rebels having escalated into a civil war, the article reads.
'Following the latest incident, Turkey has also applied to the United Nations for more strict measures against the Syrian regime, but this is not very likely since Russia, as a permanent member of the Security Council, may use its veto power for a fourth time to continue its support for al-Assad.'
'Taking into account the escalating war of words between Israel and Iran, Iran’s support to Syria, Iran and Russia’s displeasure with the new NATO radars in Turkey, and the Syrian regime becoming more aggressive every day, it can easily be said that the Turkish move was not in the direction of soothing down the situation.'
'The winds of war have started to blow more strongly in the region and nobody knows exactly what will happen after the U.S. presidential elections in a month’s time,' the author concludes.
