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Old 03-31-2014, 04:19   #3
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I couldn't imagine Turkey's government or military would want to get sucked further into Syria's civil war black hole.
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Maybe a false flag operation with a strong internal security and limited external military response could be perceived by Turkey's centres of gravity as a means to shape a quite nationalistic population around the flag and the government of the day by creating an artificial external threat, while concurrently clamping down harder internally. A desperate act of political survival perhaps?
I looked at this but without really looking at this. Very good point and a smart one on their behalf if they were planning that.
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