TURKEY HELPED ISRAEL TO ATTACK SYRIA
PanARMENIAN.Net
14.09.2007 18:10 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkish intelligence provided Israel with information
on the Syrian targets allegedly attacked by the Air Force last week
without the Turkish government’s authorization, Kuwaiti newspaper
Al-Jareeda reported Thursday.
Al-Jareeda quoted several sources as saying that Israel and senior
Turkish military personnel coordinated Israel’s invasion of Turkish
airspace during the operation to send a message to the ruling Justice
and Development party, or AKP. Senior military officials in Turkey,
most of whom are secular, oppose the Islamist party’s platform.
Turkey has asked Israel for clarification after finding two fuel
tanks on its territory near the Syrian border.
The tanks allegedly belong to IAF warplanes, a diplomatic source said
Saturday. Turkey’s Hurriyet newspaper Saturday published photographs
of what it said were fuel tanks jettisoned by Israeli F-15s sent to
gather intelligence on Syrian installations near the Turkish border.
The London-based Arabic newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat reported that
IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi refused to take a call from his
Turkish counterpart, who asked for clarifications on the attack.
Sources told Al-Jareeda that Turkish intelligence did not coordinate
the move with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "Coordination of the
[release of information] occurred far away from the political echelon,"
it said.