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Ahval
March 30, 2018
Turkey maintained its silence on the issue until last Monday , when a mild statement from the foreign ministry condemning the use of chemical weapons was followed by government spokesperson Bekir Bozdağ's declaration that Turkey would refrain from “making any kind of decision” on Russia. TurkishÃâà...
Xinhua
March 22, 2018
The mechanism, which was authorized by the Security Council to determine who were using chemical weapons in Syria, had to be disbanded after Russia ... There are also allegations of chemical weapon use in the northern Syrian district of Afrin, where Turkish forces are launching attacks on Kurds.
Kurdistan24
March 22, 2018
The State Department has the lead in the “results-oriented mechanism,” a diplomatic framework established to resolve disputes between the US and Turkey, following Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's visit to Ankara in mid-February and his long meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Xinhua
March 22, 2018
The mechanism, which was authorized by the Security Council to determine who were using chemical weapons in Syria, had to be disbanded after Russia ... There are also allegations of chemical weapon use in the northern Syrian district of Afrin, where Turkish forces are launching attacks on Kurds.
Middle East Eye
March 22, 2018
The issue of chemical weapons is also used to discredit adversaries. Iran, Russia and Syria recently accused Turkey of having used chemical weapons in an offensive on the enclave of Afrin, for example. The Syrian ambassador in New York also regularly accuses armed opposition groups of fomentingÃâà...
Philly.com
March 22, 2018
In January, Turkey invaded another Kurdish canton, known as Afrin, in northwest Syria and separated by 60 miles of territory from the bulk of Rojava, where U.S. troops are based. Turkey's main ... He has weakened NATO, by setting up Turkish troops for a possible conflict with American forces. And he isÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 21, 2018
The Syrian news agency SANA earlier reported citing hospital medics that the Turkish forces had used chemical weapons amid its ongoing ... The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has not found evidence of the possible use of chemical weapons by Turkey in Syrian Afrin, theÃâà...
Sacramento Bee
March 20, 2018
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag says Turkey does not aim to invade the Syrian town of Afrin and will hand it over to "its real owners. ... has slapped sanctions on a senior Syrian military officer and three scientists accused of links to the development and use of chemical weapons against civilians.
The News International (blog)
March 20, 2018
“We have repeatedly expressed our serious concern to Turkish officials regarding the situation in Afrin,” she said.EU sanctions 4 Syrian officials over chemical weapons: The EU on Monday sanctioned four senior Syrian officials over the use of chemical weapons against civilians, amid reports PresidentÃâà...
Pueblo Chieftain
March 19, 2018
Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army soldiers walk in city center of Afrin, northwestern Syria, early Sunday, March 18, 2018. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that allied Syrian forces have taken "total" control of the town center of Afrin, the target of a nearly two-month-old Turkish offensiveÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
March 17, 2018
But on Saturday morning, the Turkish military used its official Twitter channel to reject the allegations. “The reports claiming that the ... The allegation was laughed off by some as absurd, as the US has taken a leading role in stopping the proliferation of chemical weapons. This followed similar RussianÃâà...
Rudaw
March 16, 2018
"It was the biggest use, the most awful use of chemical weapons against anbody and in this case, against a civilian population," said Warr. With Kurdish ... Turkey's Consul General to Erbil Hakan Karachai issued a statement welcoming our "Iraqi Kurdish brothers who escaped from the Halabja massacre."
Vox
March 12, 2018
Now in its seventh year, the Syrian war has entered a new phase. Turkey invaded northwest Syria in January, while Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad reportedly dropped chemical weapons on his own people outside the country's capital, Damascus. ISIS is confined to a few remote pockets of territory in theÃâà...
KDWN
March 12, 2018
BEIRUT (AP) -- Parallel offensives waged by Turkey and the Syrian government on two separate towns in Syria on Monday pushed residents into overcrowded shelters for safety as others tried to flee the advancing forces by road. Residents and displaced families in the besieged town of Douma in theÃâà...
WPXI Pittsburgh
March 11, 2018
Meanwhile, fighting continued in the north between Turkish troops and allied militiamen and Syrian Kurdish forces in the Kurdish-controlled enclave of Afrin. Turkey's foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said his government hopes that the cross-border military offensive in Afrin will end before May. He spokeÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 9, 2018
He noted that the Turkish government committed to arming terrorists and financing their activities, set a camp for their military training on Turkey's territory, and facilitated their access to chemical weapons. According to Jaafari, terrorist groups allegedly inspired by the Turkish government robbed factories inÃâà...
ABC News
March 2, 2018
Turkey's private Dogan news agency said meanwhile that Turkish-backed Syrian opposition fighters have entered the town of Rajo, in Afrin, touching off ... They demanded Assad's government should be held accountable for the use of chemical weapons, attacks on civilians and the humanitarian blockade.
Al-Arabiya
March 2, 2018
Trump and Macron say will respond strongly to use of chemical weapons in Syria .... Eight Turkish soldiers were killed and another 13 were wounded in clashes in northwest Syria's Afrin region on Thursday, Turkey's armed forces said, bringing to 41 the death toll among Turkish soldiers in the "OliveÃâà...
Sputnik International
February 18, 2018
Reports about six civilians, hospitalized after alleged Turkish chemical weapon attack in the Northern Syrian city of Afrin, surfaced amid Ankara's ongoing operation in the Syrian enclave of Afrin. The US government has expressed skepticism over claimes that Turkey used chemical weapons, whereas theÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
February 18, 2018
A senior Turkish official has denied the claims by a monitoring group and Syrian state media that Turkey's military used chemical weapons on civilians in its operation against the Kurdish YPG fighters in northwestern Syria. "It is out of the question for Turkey to use an internationally prohibited war tool inÃâà...
The Times
February 18, 2018
The Turkish military denied the claims, saying it “does not keep such ammunition in its inventory”. A White House official said the US thought it was “extremely unlikely” that Turkey had used chemical weapons against the Kurds. Kurdish forces in Syria also claimed their first cross-border attack on TurkishÃâà...
The Week Magazine
February 17, 2018
Turkey has denied allegations that it used a chemical weapon on a Kurdish village in Syria on Friday. The accusations came from Syrian Kurdish fighters as well as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group. Both said six people suffered breathing trouble and other gas attack symptoms.
WCAX
February 14, 2018
Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister says allegations that Syria is using chemical weapons are an attempt to "justify hostile acts." ... Also on Wednesday, Mekdad said the Kurdish enclave in northwestern Syria under Turkish attack is "is an integral part of the Syrian territories," adding that they "will never give upÃâà...
The National Interest Online (blog)
December 31, 1999
These were first tested around the turn of the century, and a later test in 2005 went awry when parts of the missile landed in Turkey. Israel maintained at that time that Syria intended to use the Scud-Ds to deliver air-burst chemical weapons. It is the Scud-D missile that the UN report says Syria is trying toÃâà...
Voltaire Network
December 31, 1999
Following this, the Turkish police intercepted and seized on Turkish soil some chemical weapons that the jihadists had been getting ready to bring into Syria. The police officers that carried out this operation were imprisoned on 13 March for plotting against the Turkish state. Be that as it may, very soonÃâà...
Daily Sabah
December 31, 1999
"Turkey considers the use of chemical weapons as a crime against humanity and views the attack in the U.K. as such and condemns it," he said in a ... expulsion of Russian diplomats from NATO and EU member states and reiterated Russia's denial that it had any involvement with a chemical weapon attackÃâà...
www.worldbulletin.net
December 31, 1999
“Turkey considers the use of chemical weapons as a crime against humanity and views the attack in the U.K. as such and condemns it,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said in a statement. “Turkey joined the North Atlantic Council statement on March the 14th. Turkey's views on thisÃâà...
Ahval
December 31, 1999
Statements from Turkish officials on Monday has appeared decidedly lukewarm in comparison, with indirect condemnation but an explicit refusal to join its NATO allies in more concrete action against Russia. “Turkey acknowledges the use of chemical weapons as a crime against humanity, and sees theÃâà...
