{"id":70305,"date":"2013-05-08T08:25:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T05:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=70305"},"modified":"2014-01-08T11:39:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T09:39:22","slug":"turkey-launches-military-drills-along-syria-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/05\/08\/turkey-launches-military-drills-along-syria-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Launches Military Drills Along Syria Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Suriye s\u0131n\u0131r\u0131nda yap\u0131lan NATO tatbikat\u0131 soru i\u015faretleri do\u011furdu<\/h2>\n<p>Exercise at NATO Base to Test &#8216;Readiness for Battle&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>by Jason Ditz<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-70306\" alt=\"syria3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/syria3.gif\" width=\"328\" height=\"353\" \/>With tensions soaring in the wake of the weekend Israeli attacks on Syria, the Turkish military has launched a round of military drills at a NATO air base along the Syrian border.<\/p>\n<p>The 10-day drills will involve military and government ministry coordination in mobilization for a war with Syria. NATO says the mission was planned ahead of time, but was never reported until it began.<\/p>\n<p>The drill adds to speculation about the possibility of a NATO attack on Syria, though officials downplayed that possibility. The Assad government has not commented on the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, military drills in NATO nations are so common that it is entirely possible that they did just plan a small drill they didn\u2019t figure was worth mentioning and it became a bigger deal because of the tensions with Syria.<\/p>\n<p>via Turkey Launches Military Drills Along Syria Border &#8212; News from Antiwar.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suriye s\u0131n\u0131r\u0131nda yap\u0131lan NATO tatbikat\u0131 soru i\u015faretleri do\u011furdu Exercise at NATO Base to Test &#8216;Readiness for Battle&#8217; by Jason Ditz With tensions soaring in the wake of the weekend Israeli attacks on Syria, the Turkish military has launched a round of military drills at a NATO air base along the Syrian border. The 10-day drills [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":70306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[212,1517],"class_list":["post-70305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-syria","tag-nato","tag-turkish-syrian-border"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}