Taking Sides in Syria, Turkey Shelters Militia Fighting Assad
Once one of Syria’s closest allies, Turkey is hosting an armed opposition group
waging an insurgency against the government of President Bashar al-Assad,
providing shelter to the commander and dozens of members of the group, the Free
Syrian Army, and allowing them to orchestrate attacks across the border from
inside a camp guarded by the Turkish military.
The support for the insurgents comes amid a broader Turkish campaign to
undermine Mr. Assad’s government. Turkey is expected to impose sanctions soon on
Syria, and it has deepened its support for an umbrella political opposition
group known as the Syrian National Council, which announced its formation in
Istanbul. But its harboring of leaders in the Free Syrian Army, a militia
composed of defectors from the Syrian armed forces, may be its most striking
challenge so far to Damascus.
On Wednesday, the group, living in a heavily guarded refugee camp in Turkey,
claimed responsibility for killing nine Syrian soldiers, including one uniformed
officer, in an attack in restive central Syria.
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