Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey will support the implementation of the no-fly zone in Syria, and warned that Damascus crossed the "red line" President Obama not long ago, the use of chemical weapons, according to NBC News in an interview Thursday.
No-fly zone, against the Syrian military aircraft hit rebel targets already mentioned members of the U.S. Congress, the United States can use it to put pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's an option.
"From the beginning, we would say, 'Yes," Erdogan said, when asked if Turkey, NATO member shares the longest border with Syria, will support such action, according to NBC com reports.
However, the establishment of no-fly zone, you will need U.S. air strikes, and may be sent to the Syrian forces in the risk of casualties. Little chance that the United States will soon be undertaken, U.S. security officials said.
Erdogan's remarks, however, may increase pressure on Washington to take action in the two-year insurgency has caused the death of 70,000 people, and further shaken in a volatile region.
Erdogan also said that Assad has fired missiles, chemical weapons, his opponent, a long time ago through Obama's so-called red line. "
Obama said, in August, he believes that the use of chemical weapons in Syria as a "red line". However, be wary of false information to prove that the war in Iraq in 2003, the United States said it wanted to prove before taking any action.
"Obviously, the regime's use of chemical weapons and missiles, they use about 200 missiles, according to our intelligence, Erdogan said:" In an interview with U.S. television news media.
Turkish leaders is not clear whether Turkey is of the opinion that all the 200 missiles were chemical weapons, and said that his government has not yet decided whether to use sarin gas.
"Missiles with different sizes and then there are the deaths caused by these missiles. Burns, you know, severe burns, and chemical reactions," Erdogan told the network when asked what evidence Turkey.
"Was brought to our hospital with a patient who was wounded chemical weapons," he added.
"You can see who are affected by chemical missiles burns," said Erdogan, who told NBC that Turkey will share intelligence with the United Nations Security Council.
Obama met with Erdogan in Washington on May 16.
Assad's forces and opposition rebels have accused each use of chemical weapons. Erdogan told NBC, he suspected opponents of Assad's use of such weapons, because they lack access to them.
Turkey's state-run Anatolian news agency said earlier on Thursday that the country has sent eight experts border with Syria test injured victims, traces of the country's civil war, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
 
 



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