{"id":11363,"date":"2012-07-31T07:46:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T14:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11363"},"modified":"2012-07-31T07:46:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T14:46:41","slug":"down-the-slippery-slope-to-war-we-go-turkey-provokes-stern-warning-by-iran-stay-out-of-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11363","title":{"rendered":"Down the Slippery Slope to War we go – Turkey provokes stern warning by Iran, “Stay out of Syria”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Syria daily says Iran ally has warned Turkey<\/strong>
\n30 July, 2012 – Agence France Presse<\/p>\n

DAMASCUS: Syrian ally Iran has warned their common neighbour Turkey that it will meet a harsh response should Ankara carry out any strikes inside Syrian territory, a pro-Damascus daily reported on Monday.<\/p>\n

“Any attack on Syrian territory will meet with a harsh response, and the Iranian-Syrian mutual defence agreement will be activated,” the Al-Watan newspaper said.<\/p>\n

“Turkey has received very strong warnings in the past few hours and the following message — beware changing the rules of the game,” the paper added.<\/p>\n

Iran is the closest regional ally of embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but has also striven to keep good relations with Turkey even as the standoff over its controversial nuclear programme has deepened with other NATO member states.<\/p>\n

Tehran has enjoyed close ties with Damascus since 1980 when the Syrian government took its side in its devastating eight-year war with now executed dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime in Baghdad, and has signed a series of defence pacts, including in 2006 and 2008.<\/p>\n

But Ankara has been a leading champion of the more than 16-month uprising against the Assad regime and has given refuge to large numbers of army defectors, who have formed the kernel of a rebel army, as well as tens of thousands of civilian refugees.<\/p>\n

Al-Watan cited an “Arab diplomat” as accusing Turkey of seeking to use its fears about the rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which already enjoys rear-bases in the far north of Iraq, as a pretext to intervene in Syria.<\/p>\n

“Ankara is preparing an agreement with Washington to intervene militarily in the Syrian (crisis), using the Kurdish card as an excuse,” the paper said.<\/p>\n

“Turkey has agreed with the United States on a military intervention limited to the north of Syria, specifically the northern province of Aleppo, to pave the way for the creation of a safe haven guarded by the armed gangs.”<\/p>\n

Turkish newspapers have reported that some Kurdish-majority regions of northern Syria have been flying the flag of Syria’s PKK ally, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), in what they have said is a deal with the Assad family’s government, which was a longtime backer of the Kurdish rebel group’s insurgency in Turkey.<\/p>\n

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