Yesterday there was a reported incident at a refugee camp near Kilis on the Syria-Turkey border. Most NATO media I read simply reported that Syrian soldiers had shot at protestors in the camp, thus implying that the Syrian soldiers were possessed by evil demons on a bloodlust so Syria must be invaded.
But The Independent revealed some more details of the incident. Members of the Syrian opposition attacked a checkpoint on the Syrian side of the border, killed 6 Syrian personnel and then fled to Turkey, finding refuge in the camp. According to the report the killers were wounded.
Russia Today backs up the suggestion that Turkey, wittingly or unwittingly, is being used as a base from which the terrorists can operate, by sneaking into Syria, committing terrorist acts and then sneaking back into Turkey.
[source : Syrian rebels ‘using Turkish refugee camps as base’, Russia Today, http://rt.com/news/rebels-refugee-camp-attack-665/, 10/04/2012]
The danger regarding this is that Turkey is a member of NATO, and if Syria can be trapped or enticed into an attack on Turkey then military action on Syria by NATO could be launched under Article Five of The Washington Treaty.
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