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International Business Times
| 7 months ago
In the latest episode of friction between Turkey and Syria, an Armenian plane en route to Syria was ordered to land in Turkey and searched by authorities on Monday. Though the search was not unexpected, it was a sure indication that Turkey is...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 7 months ago
Turkey ordered an Armenian plane flying to the Syrian city of Aleppo to land and searched its cargo on Monday, in the latest move to prevent its airspace being used to supply the Syrian military. The plane was allowed to continue on its way after the...
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Fox
| 7 months ago
Turkey Turkey's foreign ministry spokesman says Turkish authorities are searching the cargo of an Armenian plane bound for Syria. Selcuk Unal says Turkey granted the plane carrying aid for the Syrian city of Aleppo a permission to fly over its...
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DAWN
| 7 months ago
UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi called Monday for a ceasefire in Syria during the upcoming four-day Muslim holiday of Eidul Azha, as the revolt entered its 20th month with a death toll of more than 33,000. Brahimi made his call as he shuttled between Syria'...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 7 months ago
Selcuk Unal says Turkey granted the plane carrying aid for the Syrian city of Aleppo permission to fly over its airspace only on condition its cargo could be searched for possible military equipment. Unal said: "If nothing turns out it will be...
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The Globe & Mail
| 7 months ago
Turkey's Chief of General Staff Necdet Ozel (C) arrives at Oncupinar border outpost on the Turkish-Syrian border in Kilis province October 9, 2012 Turkish Military/Handout/Reuters video The plane would be allowed to continue on its journey if nothing...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 7 months ago
Breaking News Turkish authorities searched an Armenian plane after forcing it to land in the eastern city of Erzurum on Monday, sources from Turkey's state airports authority said, without giving further details. Turkey forced down a Syrian...
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United Press International
| 7 months ago
Russian passengers on a Syrian plane grounded by Turkey were state agents, a Turkish newspaper reported, as Turkey and Syria imposed tit-for-tat air space bans. The 17 Russian passengers aboard the Syrian Air Airbus A-320 jetliner with 35 passengers...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
The European Union slapped fresh sanctions against President Bashar al-Assad's regime Monday, agreeing an assets freeze and travel ban on 28 Syrians and two firms at a meeting of EU foreign ministers. This 19th round of sanctions since the start of...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
An Armenian plane on its way to Syria's battered second city of Aleppo was forced to land in Turkey on Monday for security checks on its cargo, a Turkish Foreign Ministry official said, just days after a similar move against a Syrian plane flying...
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Russia Today
| 7 months ago
The aircraft was forced to land while en route to Aleppo, Syria. Ankara claimed it diverted the flight for a security inspection, AFP reported. This incident comes days after the Turkish military forced a Syrian plane traveling from Moscow to...
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Los Angeles Times
| 7 months ago
Turkey The turrets of Turkish armored vehicles rise from the cotton fields outside this border village, guns trained toward Syria. Infantry units flank the banks of the Orontes River as Syrians escaping the fighting in their homeland maneuver across...
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SF Gate
| 7 months ago
Syria and Turkey, meanwhile, declared their skies off-limits to each other amid mounting cross-border tensions in Syria's 19-month-old conflict, now a civil war. Turkey is an outspoken backer of rebels trying to oust President Bashar Assad . Many of...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 7 months ago
The diplomatic crisis between Syria and Turkey continued to escalate yesterday (Sunday) as the two countries banned each other from using their airspace, even for civilian flights. The tit-for-tat move comes after Turkey last week forced down a...
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Indian Express
| 7 months ago
No mans land '+google_ads[i].line2 +' '+google_ads[i].line3 + ' Turkeys tensions with Syria show regional powers were bound to get involved in the Syrian conflict Beginning midnight Saturday, local time, Turkish civilian planes are no longer allowed...
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SF Gate
| 7 months ago
The Syrian regime was accused Sunday of dropping cluster bombs indiscriminate scattershot munitions banned by most nations in a new sign of desperation and disregard for its own people. The international group Human Rights Watch cited amateur video...
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Mail Online UK
| 7 months ago
Members of the Free Syrian Army get a lift to the front lines of the battle between FSA and soldiers in Aleppo HRW had previously reported cluster bomb remnants found in Homs and nearby Hama this summer. 'Syria's disregard for its civilian population...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Turkey has banned Syrian civilian flights from its airspace, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Sunday, after Damascus announced it had imposed a similar restriction on Turkish flights. "Yesterday [Saturday] we closed our airspace to Syrian...
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United Press International
| 7 months ago
The Syrian government announced a ban Sunday of all Turkish flights in its airspace as tensions between the neighboring countries mounted. Turkey's forced landing of a Syrian passenger flight earlier this week. Turkey hasn't declared any flight...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 7 months ago
Syrian government forces have dropped Russian-made cluster bombs over civilian areas in the past week as they battle to reverse rebel gains on a strategic highway, Human Rights Watch said on Sunday. Rebels surrounded an army garrison on Sunday near a...
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BBC
| 7 months ago
The ban follows similar restrictions imposed by Syria, after a Syrian plane alleged to be carrying Russian munitions was intercepted by Turkey. Turkey's ban came in on Saturday night and was communicated to Syria, but was only made public on Sunday.
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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
Syrian rebel fighters guard a post on the front line near the Wadi Daif government army base on the outskirts of the city of Maaret al-Numan, in the northwestern Idlib province, on October 13, 2012. Syrian government forces have dropped Russian-made...
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International Business Times
| 7 months ago
The move has come days after Turkey intercepted a Syrian plane alleging that it carried Russian made munitions for the Syrian army. Syria has said that the ban was in retaliation against Turkey's ban of Syrian planes over its territory. Turkey has...
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Al Jazeera
| 7 months ago
57 Syria has announced a ban on Turkish civilian flights over its territory, as relations between the former allies continues to sink to new depths...It said the move was in retaliation for a similar Turkish ban on Syrian flights.
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Russia Today
| 7 months ago
Reuters / Osman Orsal) Damascus has placed a ban on Turkish Airlines flying into Syrian airspace following a diplomatic row that began when Turkey seized cargo from a Syrian civilian plane it forced to land in Ankara. Syria's foreign ministry has...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 7 months ago
Tension between the two countries is high after they engaged in sporadic cross-border shelling last week. A Syrian Foreign Ministry statement says the ban, "in accordance with the principle of reciprocity", will take effect at midnight on Saturday (...
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BBC
| 7 months ago
Syria has announced that Turkish civilian planes will no longer be allowed to fly over its territory. The move comes just days after Turkey intercepted a Syrian flight, claiming the plane was carrying Russian-made munitions for the Syrian army. Syria'...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 7 months ago
Syria decided to ban Turkish Airlines flights from Syrian airspace...The decision came three days after Turkey intercepted a Syrian passenger plane en route from Moscow to Damascus and seized what it said was military equipment on board. Tensions...
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International Business Times
| 7 months ago
A lion at the Damascus Zoo Children play in spite of their wounds, zookeepers look after their charges despite the chaos and the lions continue to thrive. For the past 40 years, Syrians have been reluctant to admit that lions are animals, or...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, made his call for reform of the UN security council at the Istanbul World Forum. Photograph: AP Recep Tayyip Erdogan told an international conference that the world had been witnessing a humanitarian...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi and German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle were in Istanbul for talks with Turkish leaders on Saturday as tensions soared between Damascus and Ankara over cargo seized from a Syrian passenger plane. Syria said it was...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 7 months ago
Security Council on Saturday for its failure to agree on decisive steps to end the 19-month civil war in Syria. Recep Tayyip Erdogan told an international conference in Istanbul that the world was witnessing a "humanitarian tragedy" in Syria. "If we...
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Al Jazeera
| 7 months ago
53 The UN's envoy on Syria is meeting with Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Saturday to discuss the 19-month Syrian civil war. Lakhdar Brahimi traveled to Istanbul from Saudi Arabia amid growing tensions between Syria and its northern...
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Fox News
| 7 months ago
The U.N.'s envoy on Syria is meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Saturday to discuss the 19-month Syrian civil war. Lakhdar Brahimi traveled to Istanbul from Saudi Arabia amid growing tensions between Syria and its northern...
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Qatar English Daily
| 7 months ago
Turkey-Syria tensions flare up over arms' plane Friday, 12 October 2012 A Syrian passenger plane is seen after it was forced to land at Ankara airport, Turkey. The plane was headed to Damascus from Moscow with 35 passengers on board, according to...
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BBC
| 7 months ago
The UN-Arab League envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, is due to hold talks in Turkey, amid rising tensions between Ankara and Damascus. Mr Brahimi will hear Turkey's perspective on the raging crisis from Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. His visit...
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Denver Post
| 7 months ago
Russia's foreign minister said Friday that a civilian Syrian jetliner impounded by Turkey on accusations it was transporting Russian military cargo illicitly to Syria was only carrying electronic components for a radar station, and that such...
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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
The interception of a passenger plane allegedly carrying military gear from Moscow to Damascus is a sign of Turkey's mounting frustration at the drawn-out conflict and its inability to hasten regime change in Syria, according to analysts. Recent...
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DAWN
| 7 months ago
The army took a pounding at the hands of rebels in northern Syria, a watchdog said on Friday, as tensions between Damascus and Ankara escalated over cargo seized from a Syrian passenger plane. A rebel offensive killed more than 130 soldiers in two...
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Arab News
| 7 months ago
Russia said on Friday the Syrian plane intercepted by Turkey on a flight from Moscow was carrying a cargo of dual-purpose radar equipment but insisted that Moscow did not violate any laws. This cargo is electrical technical equipment for radar...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 7 months ago
THE Syrian plane intercepted by Turkey this week on a flight from Moscow was carrying a legal cargo of radar equipment, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says. "This cargo is electrical technical equipment for radar stations, this is dual-...
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Kuwait Times
| 7 months ago
Syrian rebels have gone on the offensive killing more than 100 soldiers in two days, a watchdog said yesterday, as tension between Syria and Turkey escalated over cargo seized from a Syrian Air jet. Fourteen soldiers died in an attack on an army post...
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Contra Costa Times
| 7 months ago
A Syrian plane that was forced to land in Turkey was legally carrying Russian radar parts for Syria, Russia's foreign minister said Friday. Sergey Lavrov insisted the shipment of "electric equipment for radars" was a legitimate cargo that complied...
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Taiwan News
| 7 months ago
Fighters from a shadowy militant group with suspected links to al-Qaida joined Syria n rebels in seizing a government missile defense base in northern Syria on Friday, according to activists and amateur video. It was unclear if the rebels were able...
