{"id":32968,"date":"2013-05-12T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/turkey-wont-act-on-syria-without-us-blessing\/32968\/"},"modified":"2013-05-12T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T22:07:00","slug":"turkey-wont-act-on-syria-without-us-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/turkey-wont-act-on-syria-without-us-blessing\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Turkey won\u2019t act on Syria without US blessing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Despite harsh rhetoric, Turkey won\u2019t take any action against the Syrian government of Bashar Assad without getting a go-ahead from Washington, Middle East expert, Jeremy Salt, told RT.<\/p>\n

Turkish authorities have detained nine people in connection with
\nSaturday’s deadly car bombings in a town near the Syrian
\nborder.<\/p>\n

Two blasts killed 46 and injured over 100 as Turkey was quick to
\nblame Syrian intelligence for the attack, but the government in
\nDamascus denies all the accusations.<\/p>\n

Middle Eastern history and politics professor at Bilkent
\nUniversity in Turkey, Jeremy Salt, says it\u2019s the Islamists among
\nthe Syrian rebels, who look the only party to benefit from the
\nattacks.<\/p>\n

RT:<\/b> Why did the Turkish government label the Syrian
\ngovernment as the “usual suspects” in the bombings \u2014 before the
\ninvestigation even started?<\/i><\/p>\n

Jeremy Salt:<\/b> The Turkish government claims it arrested
\nnine people and it claims to have evidence that they\u2019re connected
\nwith the Syrian intelligence service. We haven\u2019t seen that evidence
\nyet. We\u2019ll have to wait and see what it says. At this stage, it
\nseems to me quite inconceivable that Syria would do that because if
\nwe look at what\u2019s happening on the ground right now. The Syrian
\narmy is rolling back the insurgency. The insurgents have taken huge
\nlosses in the last few months, in particular, around Damascus, near
\nthe Lebanese border, and even around Halab \u2014 Aleppo \u2014 and in the
\nNorth Syria. And along with this is the fact that the Americans are
\nchanging pace and are going into negotiations with Russia to come
\nout with a solution. So it doesn\u2019t make any sense that Syria would
\ndo that right now.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

RT:<\/b> Just in the last few hours, Syria’s information
\nminister said that Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan’s responsible <\/p>\n

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