Syrian Civil War: News

Hannibal Barca wrote:Can someone explain what we are looking in this video? Details.

etaepsilonk wrote:

Hannibal Barca wrote:Can someone explain what we are looking in this video? Details.

I think, that some Frenchies are angry at SNC for failing to gather up FSA factions in Geneva (out of 22 promised, only 8 came), at least that's how I understand that.

flamming_python wrote:

magnumcromagnon wrote:Leaked Video of French Ambassador Dispute with SNC: You Don't Deserve the Efforts We Made:

Christ, looks & sounds all like some Italian mafia meeting, not an ambassador with some 'legitimate government'  

I think, that some Frenchies are angry at SNC for failing to gather up FSA factions in Geneva (out of 22 promised, only 8 came), at least that's how I understand that.

flamming_python wrote:Ban Ki Moon was of course favoured by America in his day for the position. Wonder why.

Although pretty much just a figurehead, he has his functions, and within their limits does what he can to tilt towards the US position ever so imperceptibly.

Hannibal Barca wrote:

I think, that some Frenchies are angry at SNC for failing to gather up FSA factions in Geneva (out of 22 promised, only 8 came), at least that's how I understand that.

Thanks mate.

flamming_python wrote:Ban Ki Moon was of course favoured by America in his day for the position. Wonder why.

Although pretty much just a figurehead, he has his functions, and within their limits does what he can to tilt towards the US position ever so imperceptibly.

Of course. The one who controls world's economy also control's world's diplomacy.
Diplomacy is nothing else than speaking politely and assertively with saying nothing of substance and then, secretly or openly, paying your way in solving matters your way.
So much about this diplomacy crap, huh!

Viktor wrote:Here is a tweet by The Guardian writer Rana Kabbani ... what can one say

so much about western journalism

Werewolf wrote:

Viktor wrote:Another "woman" caught trying to flee from Yabrud   

Only a mother can love such a face, urghs, i get goose bumps just by looking at this picture.

Viktor wrote:Another "woman" caught trying to flee from Yabrud   

Turkey says leaked recording of Syria meeting a 'wretched attack'

Turkey's foreign ministry said on Thursday the leaking of a recording purportedly of top officials discussing possible military operations in Syria was a "wretched attack" on national security and those behind it would receive the heaviest punishment.

In a written statement the ministry said some sections of the recording - presented on an anonymous YouTube account as Turkey's intelligence chief discussing Syria with the foreign minister and deputy head of the armed forces - had been manipulated.

Chief advisor to Turkish President Ahmet Sever denied media reports that the National Security Council (MGK) is set to have an emergency meeting to discuss the leaked voice recording.

In the voice recording Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, National Intelligence Organization (MİT) Undersecretary Hakan Fidan, Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioğlu and Deputy Chief of General Staff Gen. Yaşar Güler are heard discussing possible intervention into Syria and possible reactions from the world.

The posting follows similar releases on social media in recent weeks which Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has cast as a plot orchestrated by his political enemies to undermine him ahead of March 30 elections.

Reuters could not verify the authenticity of the recording, potentially the most damaging purported leak so far as it appeared to have originated from the bugging of a highly confidential and sensitive conversation.

The foreign ministry was not immediately available to comment while the military could not immediately be reached.

The YouTube account presents the recording as being of intelligence chief Hakan Fidan discussing with Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, Deputy Chief of Staff Yaşar Güler and other officials a possible operation to secure the tomb of Suleyman Shah, grandfather of the founder of the Ottoman Empire, in an area of northern Syria largely controlled by militant Islamists.

Ankara regards the tomb as sovereign Turkish territory under a treaty signed with France in 1921, when Syria was under French rule. About two dozen Turkish special forces soldiers permanently guard it.

Turkey threatened two weeks ago to retaliate for any attack on the tomb, after clashes between militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), an al Qaeda breakaway group, and rival rebel groups in the area, east of Aleppo near the Turkish border.

"An operation against ISIL has international legitimacy. We will define it as al Qaeda. There are no issues on the al Qaeda framework. When it comes to the Suleyman Shah tomb, it's about the protection of national soil," a voice presented as that of foreign ministry undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioglu says.

When the discussion turns to the need to justify such an operation, the voice purportedly of Fidan says: "Justification can be created. The matter is to create the will."

Turkish media also reported that the Foreign Ministry has started an investigation in the ministry building to find out how and by whom the meeting was recorded.

Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's office has launched an investigation into the incident of the leaked audio recording, officials said.

In his first comment on the leaked audio recording, Turkish Prime Minister has called the leak a wretched attack on national security and a treason against the country. Confirming the authenticity of the leaked recording, Erdoğan vowed action against those who were responsible for the leak.

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