Turkey mulls military mandate on Syria
Iran Press TV
Thu Oct 3, 2013 8:34AM GMT
The Turkish parliament will vote on a mandate that allows Turkey’s armed forces to send soldiers into Syria, amid recent chemical attacks in the Arab country, Press TV reports.
Turkish lawmakers will vote on Thursday.
Since August, Turkey has been vocally supporting a US-led military intervention in Syria.
A recent opinion poll shows that 72 percent of the Turkish people are against a war on Syria.
The United States and its allies accuse Syria of carrying out a deadly chemical attack near Damascus on August 21. The Syrian government rejects the allegation, saying foreign-backed militants in the country conducted the attack to draw in military intervention.
Turkish anti-war protesters have also held demonstrations in the cities of Gaziantep, Izmir and Hatay.
According to statistics compiled by the United Nations, more than 100,000 people have been killed and a total of 7.8 million of others displaced since unrest erupted in Syria in March 2011.
The crisis in Syria has forced many of the displaced to move to the Turkish border regions.
Reports say Western powers and their regional allies - especially Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey - are supporting the militants operating inside Syria.
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