'Dilemna & 'danger of losing itself' for Ankara in Syria!'

About 10 months ago I wrote:

Erdogan, should worry, Turkey has the same Syrian, religious/ethnic political landscape. So, if Syria falls, Turkey could be NEXT. If Syria survive (IT will), Turkey would lose everything build via the Syrian Gate.

In Arabic we say in Arabic, those who have a Glazed home should avoid throwing stones on neighbors. More

'Dilemna & 'danger of losing itself' for Ankara in Syria!'

"The Syrian National Council has called for a bureau to be created for facilitating arms to the opposition in Syria. This is posing a dilemma for Ankara, which has been strongly supporting the opposition but has refrained, at least publicly, from backing the arming of the opposition. 

Ankara has refrained from commenting on the Syrian National Council's call for a bureau to be created to provide armed support for the Free Syrian Army, an armed militia that is fighting against Syrian security forces.... at a meeting on Friday between the SNC leadership and Turkey's foreign minister, both sides denied discussing the issue,... 

Semih Idiz, a diplomatic columnist for the Turkish newspaper Milliyet, says the SNC's public calls for arming the opposition have embarrassed Ankara.
"Well, it leaves Turkey in a difficult situation. It contradicts a lot of positions in the past. Namely, about non-interference [in] other countries' domestic affairs. Engaging in this kind of power play with military involvement in another country actually stands to rebound on Turkey in other ways," Idiz said. 

Ankara fears that any support for arming the opposition in a neighboring country could open the door to retaliation by Damascus by offering support to the Kurdish rebel group, the PKK.... 

But international relations expert Soli Ozel of Istanbul's Kadir Has University warns that with Syria's crackdown intensifying, Ankara's room to maneuver is becoming increasingly limited. 

"Turkey is caught between [a] rock and [a] hard place. It has made a lot of claims about its power and influence. It is being drawn [into] a quagmire and [is] being asked to do things it does not actually want to do. Absolutely, Turkey wants the cover of some kind of international legitimacy, which it could not get from the U.N. Security Council," Ozel said....
There is speculation that Ankara is already providing armed support to the Syrian opposition, or at least facilitating it - a claim that Ankara strongly denies. Observers warn there is already growing unease in the country that Turkey is in danger of losing control of its own destiny in the deepening crisis in Syria..."

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