Report: Turkish military convoys head for Syrian border
Report: Turkish military convoys head for Syrian border | Maan News Agency.
ANKARA (Reuters) — A convoy of about 30 military vehicles, including trucks loaded with missile batteries, set off from Turkey’s coastal town of Iskenderun in Hatay province, headed for the Syrian border 50 km away, Turkish media reported on Thursday.
State-run Anatolia news agency said armored military vehicles were also being transported to military installations in Sanliurfa, in the middle of Turkey’s border with Syria and Hatay, a panhandle province that juts down into Syria.
Anatolia said there were reports the vehicles were to be deployed along the border. It said several military vehicles had traveled separately to a military garrison in the border town of Reyhanli in Hatay.
The reports come less than a week after Syria shot down a Turkish reconnaissance jet over the Mediterranean prompting a sharp rebuke from Ankara which said the act would not go unpunished.
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WarSclerotic 
June 28, 2012 at 2:36 PM
What should really trouble the public is Turkey’s deployment of MLRS rocket batteries along their border. Unlike AA guns, which are strictly defensive, and tanks, which can really be used either way, MLRS batteries are inherently offensive weapons, and the more that these weapons are deployed, the more likely it is that they will be used. Turkey stands to lose its legitimacy as the victim in this skirmish with Syria if they start raining rockets on their neighbors. http://bit.ly/KOCvo5