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    SYRIA ACCUSES TURKEY OF BACKING TERRORISM, OPENING BORDERS TO AL-QAEDA

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    August 2, 2012 - 21:01 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - Syria accused Turkey on Thursday, August 2 of playing
    a "fundamental role" in supporting terrorism by opening its airport
    and border to al Qaeda and other jihadists to carry out attacks inside
    Syria, Reuters said.

    Once close allies, the two countries' relationship quickly deteriorated
    as President Bashar al-Assad intensified a crackdown in a 17-month-old
    uprising against his rule.

    Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has called on Assad to leave
    and Ankara has set up a sprawling refugee camp along the border which
    houses thousands of Syrian refugees.

    Several military officers have defected to Turkey and the nominal
    commander of the Free Syrian Army, a loosely coordinated group of
    insurgents fighting Assad's forces, is also based there.

    "The Turkish government plays a fundamental role in supporting
    terrorism by opening its airport and borders to host al Qaeda elements,
    jihadists and salafists," Syria's foreign ministry said in a statement
    circulated on state television.

    "The Turkish government has set up on its soil military offices where
    Israeli, American, Qatari and Saudi intelligence agencies direct the
    terrorists in their war on the Syrian people," the statement said.

    Damascus also accused France and the United States of sending rebels
    communications equipment. U.S. sources have said President Barack Obama
    signed a secret order authorizing U.S. support for rebels seeking to
    depose Assad.

    Gulf sources told Reuters that Turkey had set up a secret base
    with allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar to direct vital military and
    communications aid to Syria's rebels from the city of Adana near
    the border.

    The statement said Turkey had used the camps as "military bases"
    for terrorists who then headed to Syria to commit crimes.

    A Turkish foreign ministry spokesman said: "It is not the first
    unsupported claim coming from Syria. These speculative claims are
    not reflecting the truth."



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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