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Syria's massive new assault on innocent civilians in and around Idlib, near the border with Turkey, is driving huge numbers of new refugees -- over 1,000 per day according to some reports -- into Turkey's refugee camps. On Friday, Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reacted to this worsening situation:
"We are making assessments including the withdrawal of our ambassador. There are also considerations about creating a buffer zone and a safe zone, we are evaluating alternatives."
The buffer zone would be a strip of land on Syria's side of border where Syrian refugees could flee for safety, protected by Turkey's army. The problem is that this would probably bring Turkey's army into conflict with Syria's army. Erdogan has talked about a security zone before and nothing came of it, but the situation is much worse now than it was last year. Zaman (Istanbul)
North Korea said Friday it will launch an earth observation satellite aboard a long-range rocket next month. The North Koreans are claiming that this is a "scientific" endeavor, but the same long-range rocket could also be used to transport nuclear weapons. It was just last month that the North Koreans agreed to stop development of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, in exchange for food aid. This follows a familiar pattern where they promise something in return for money or food, and then ignore their promises after they've received the aid. The difference this time is that they didn't even wait to receive the aid, apparently believing they'd get it anyway. Yonhap (Seoul)
Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai on Friday accused the United States of stonewalling an investigation into the killings of 16 Afghan civilians and suggested that more than one soldier may have been involved in the massacre. After Karzai had a stormy meeting with the families of the victims of the massacre:
"They believe it’s not possible for one person to do that. In his family, in four rooms, people were killed, women and children were killed, and they were all brought together in one room and then put on fire. That, one man cannot do.[The Afghan army chief] has just reported that the Afghan investigation team did not receive the cooperation that they expected from the United States. Therefore these are all questions that we’ll be raising, and raising very loudly, and raising very clearly.
This has been going on for too long. This is by all means the end of the rope here.
This behavior cannot be tolerated. It is past, past, past the time."
Karzai reiterated his demand that the Nato withdrawal be completed by 2013, a year earlier than previously planned. Washington Post
(Comments: For reader comments, questions and discussion,
see the 17-Mar-12 World View -- Turkey once again talks about a 'buffer zone' in Syria
thread of the Generational Dynamics forum. Comments may be
posted anonymously.)
(17-Mar-2012)
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