Turkey, Syria Trade Fire for Third Day - Wall Street Journal [getdailynow.blogspot.com]
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By JOE PARKINSON And AYLA ALBAYRAK
Turkish military take up positions on the Turkish side of the border near Syrian rebel-controlled areas Friday.
ISTANBULâ€"Turkey's military fired artillery into Syria for the third straight day Friday after a mortar landed in the Turkish countryside, raising the threat that hostile exchanges could become a regular occurrence along the neighbors' increasingly tense frontier.
The Syrian-fired mortar landed in the Turkish village of Asagipulluyazi, just over 50 yards away from the border in Hatay province at 7 p.m. local time, Turkish officials said. No one was hurt in the blast, which detonated less than 6 miles (10 kilometers) from sprawling camps built to hold Syrian refugees.
Neither the Hatay province governor nor other Turkish officials would say how and when Turkey's military responded. Turkey's General Staff wasn't immediately available to comment.
Friday's artillery exchange came just hours after Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan warned Damascus that testing Turkey would be "a fatal mistake," underlining that Ankara was ready to launch more retaliatory strikes if Syria's conflict continues to spill across the border.
Analysts cautioned that Turkish retaliatory strikes on Syria were likely to become a regular event, stressing that the scope of Turkey's attacks would depend on an assessment of whether the Syrian shelling was deliberate and intended to kill.
"This is now the new normal. The Prime Minister made it clear that the government won't remain silent to these acts," said Sinan Ulgen, a former Turkish diplomat now at the Carnegie Endowment in Brussels. "But the scope and scale of retaliation will be determined on an assessment of whether the attack is intentional or accidental and therefore has the approval of the chain of command in Syria," he said.
Turkey conducted nearly 12 hours of artillery attacks that lasted from Wednesday evening into early Thursday after a Syrian mortar killed five civilians in a separate incident in the border town of Akcakale. Those strikes targeted a Syrian army position several miles inside Syrian territory from Akcakale, Turkish officials said.
Turkish newspapers on Friday carried reports that Turkey's initial artillery barrage had pushed Damascus to withdraw army units fighting close to the border and ban helicopters and fighter jets from flying within 6 miles of Turkey's frontier. Those reports could not be independently confirmed, but Ankara had appeared satisfied that President Bashar al-Assad wanted to avoid a further escalation.
Analysts say that Turkey also wants to avoid a ratcheting up of tensions along its 565-mile border with Syria. Despite the hawkish rhetoric, Turkey has repeatedly stressed that it will act under international law and in coordination with other foreign powers.
The U.N. Security Council on Thursday condemned the Syrian strike, while the United States has said it stands by its NATO ally's right to defend itself against aggression spilling over from Syria's internal armed conflict.
But while Ankara it has the vocal backing of its international allies after the attack on its territory, appears to have no partners for broader military action.
Write to Joe Parkinson at joe.parkinson@dowjones.com
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