The state-run Anatolia news agency said armored vehicles were being transported to military installations in the south-eastern Sanliurfa province.

13:09 28/06/2012

ANKARA, June 28 (RIA Novosti)

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Turkey deployed anti-aircraft artillery near its border with Syria on Thursday, amid heightened tensions over the downing of a Turkish warplane by Syrian forces last week, state media reported.

State TV footage showed trucks carrying rocket launchers and missile batteries arriving in the coastal town of Iskenderun, some 50 kilometers from the Syrian border.

The state-run Anatolia news agency said armored vehicles were being transported to military installations in the south-eastern Sanliurfa province.

The deployment comes two days after Turkish Prime Minsiter Tayyip Erdogan said "every military element approaching Turkey from the Syrian border" and deemed threatening would be seen as a military target.

Syria insists it engaged the F-4 Phantom "according to the laws that govern such situations" after it violated its airspace. Turkey says the plane was shot down in international airspace.

Speaking to the Turkish news channel A Haber on Wednesday, Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoebi said his country's forces may have mistaken the Turkish jet for an Israeli one.

An emergency NATO meeting, convened at Turkey's request on Tuesday, condemned the downing of the plane as "unacceptable" and expressed "strong solidarity" with Ankara.

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free_mind50(no title)
14:04, 28/06/2012
turkey cannot engage in a full blown war with syria, as the unintended consequence, would be the loss of its Kurdish dominated areas, as turkey will be unwittingly provided the mechanism and path for a regional kurdish state.
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PlutardsSyria, the center of all attentions globally.
17:24, 28/06/2012
The collective psyche of the West has Syria as the main, top priority outstanding all the other conflicts in the Middle-East nowadays. All the eyes of the West go to Syria, practically disregarding Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Pakistan, Afghanistan and so on and so forth.
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bielecMore evidence that the incident was a false flag operation
18:04, 28/06/2012
This is a completely illogical reaction. Turkey violated the Syrian airspace provoking Syria to respond in self-defence. Now, not Syria but Turkey is using this incident to militarize the border.

It seems that Turkey needed a false pretext to move their army towards Syria. Why?

1. In preparation for a ground invasion?
2. To protect the death squads crossing the border in and out of Syria?
3. To smuggle arms to rebels operating in Syria?

All of these reasons violate international law.
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