Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Fresh off new elections that saw the AKP returned to power with another majority government, Turkey's government is facing an onslaught of thousands of refugees from Syria.

Al-Jazeera reports that the Syrian Army is "splitting apart." Also alleging that Iranian snipers are being used in Syria to attack protesters.

Bashar al-Assad must be feeling lucky that Syria doesn't have any oil!

Here is the al-Jazeera report from Monday night:




The Hurriyet Daily News, meanwhile, is showing disturbing footage of what they say is an attack by Syrian forces upon villagers as they head down a highway en route to fleeing into Turkey.