{"id":26466,"date":"2012-10-06T13:09:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T10:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=26466"},"modified":"2012-10-06T13:12:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T10:12:30","slug":"turkey-prime-minister-erdogan-war-plan-syria-26466","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkey-prime-minister-erdogan-war-plan-syria-26466\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan:No War Plan against Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rejected the speculations that Ankara wants to wage war on Syria.<\/h1>\n

Prime Minister stated that the Turkish parliament’s mandate for military operations outside the country is aimed at boosting Turkey’s deterrent power.<\/p>\n

“We have no intention of starting a war with Syria,” Erdogan said in a press conference with the visiting Iranian First Vice-President Mohammad Reza Rahimi in Ankara on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n

Turkey is not a warmongering country while we have witnessed the consequences of warmongering policies near our borders in Iraq and Afghanistan, he added.<\/p>\n

He noted that the cross-border mandate was meant to serve as an “active deterrent” in the face of the escalating spillover of violence into his country’s territories.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Thursday, the Turkish parliament approved a motion authorizing military operations outside the country’s borders “when deemed necessary”.<\/p>\n

The approval came after mortars fired from Syria killed five people in town of Akcakala, Southeastern Turkey, on October 3.<\/p>\n

On October 4, Turkish artillery hit targets near Syria’s Tel Abyad border town for a second day.<\/p>\n

Meantime, Damascus said it was investigating the mortar attack on Akcakale.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 10)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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