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Topic: Syria-Turkey relations

May 14, 2013
3:06 pm

Turkish riot police surround destroyed shops two days after the explosions on Saturday that killed 46 and injured about 50 others, in Reyhanli, near Turkey's border with Syria, on Monday, May 13, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

13 detained for Turkish bombings, death toll rises to 51

Ankara blame Saturday’s attacks on a unnamed Marxist group with links to Syrian intelligence; Damascus denies responsibility

February 3, 2013
11:20 pm

A man carries a body among ruins in the Syrian city of Aleppo, Sunday (photo credit: Aleppo Media Center AMC/AP)

Turkey pledges to help Syrian opposition

FM Ahmet Davutoglu calls for an end to the conflict that has killed more than 60,000

February 2, 2013
3:02 pm

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu attends a press conference in Davos, Switzerland, last month (photo credit: AP/Michel Euler)

Turkish FM slams Assad for not responding to Israeli strike

Ahmet Davutoglu says his government will not stand by as Israel attacks a Muslim country

By Yoel Goldman

January 17, 2013
1:04 pm

Turk reportedly wounded from stray Syrian bullet

Man hit in the neck in a town that borders Syria

December 21, 2012
7:09 pm

A screen capture from a video purporting to show the Syrian Army firing a Scud missile (image capture: YouTube)

NATO accuses Syria of continuing to fire Scud-type rockets

Use of missiles are ‘acts of a desperate regime approaching collapse,’ says secretary-general

December 15, 2012
11:42 am

US Admiral James Stavridis, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe (photo credit: courtesy US Dept. of Defense)

NATO says Syrian Scuds hit ‘near’ Turkey

From the web Reuters: Commander explains why US Patriot batteries will be deployed near Syrian-Turkish border

December 4, 2012
3:50 pm

A Patriot anti-missile system in Israel (Photo credit: Shay Levy/Flash 90)

Amid fears of chemical attacks from Syria, NATO to station Patriot missiles in Turkey

NATO chief calls Syrian WMDs a ‘great concern’; mortar shell hits school near Damascus, kills eight students

November 28, 2012
8:24 pm

In this 2012 file photo, a land mine expert works in mined land in the Karkemish archaeological site at the Turkey-Syria border in Gaziantep province, Turkey (photo credit: AP Photo/File)

Syrian war clouds Turkish plan to clear 600,000 land mines

Ankara seeded Syria border area in an effort to prevent smuggling in the 1950s, and again in the 1980s during the war with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party

By Christopher Torchia

November 25, 2012
8:17 pm

An illustrative photo of a Patriot missile system (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Darkone/Wikimedia Commons)

Iran warns Turkey not to deploy Patriot missiles

From the web Tehran fears arms placement could further inflame region, Reuters reports

November 24, 2012
1:58 am

Russia condemns NATO’s decision to place Patriot missiles along Syrian-Turkish border

NATO Secretary General says deployment is for protection only

By Michal Shmulovich

November 14, 2012
3:24 pm

This amateur video provided to AP shows billowing smoke in the Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn, as seen from the Turkish town of Ceylanpinar on Tuesday November 13, 2012 (photo credit: AP Photo/AP Video)

Turkey threatens military retaliation over Syrian incursions

Several Turkish villages along border evacuated due to spillover from civil war

By Mehmet Guzel

October 31, 2012
6:57 pm

Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan address the media during a joint press conference after a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, in October 2012 (photo credit: AP/Michael Sohn)

Turkish PM: Up to UN Security Council to decide on Syria no-fly zone

Merkel praises Ankara’s efforts on behalf of refugees

October 29, 2012
1:47 pm

Firefighters extinguish fire at the scene after a bomb attached to a fuel truck exploded outside a Damascus hotel in August (illustrative photo credit: AP/SANA)

Several killed in Damascus car bomb

In north, Turkey returns artillery fire as Syrian shell lands across border

October 23, 2012
3:23 pm

Syrian anti-aircraft shell hits Turkish health center

No injuries as projectile hits empty room 200 meters from border

October 21, 2012
9:39 am

A Turkish military station at the border with Syria (photo credit: AP)

Turkish retaliatory fire has killed 12 Syrian soldiers, paper claims

From the web Reuters: Daily newspaper Milliyet says forces have fired across the border 87 times destroying several tanks after mortar bombs land in Turkey

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