Turkey deploys missiles on Syrian border

Turkey on Sunday deployed ground-to-air missiles and troop carriers along its border with Syria, boosting its firepower in the area, the state-run Anatolia News Agency has reported.

A train convoy carrying several batteries of missiles arrived in Mardin in southeastern Turkey and will be transferred to several army units deployed on the border, according to the Anatolia news agency.

Television footage showed at least five vehicles in the convoy were carrying air defense missiles, in the latest show of force by Syria’s one-time ally which is now a fervent critic of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

Tensions between the two nations have risen in recent months as Turkey has led the international opposition to Assad.

Southern Turkey has been used as a base by armed Syrian rebels who are also armed and supported by U.S, Israel and some certain Arab regimes, with so- called Free Syrian Army fighters often crossing the border to carry out attacks on civilians and then blame the government for killing people. So-called Islamic media is also strictly misinforming the whole world according the interests of Israel and West.

Last month Syrian forces downed a Turkish jet and killed its two pilots after is strayed into Syrian airspace, setting off a crisis that threatened to turn into all-out war.

Turkish police clash with refugees

Also on Sunday, Turkish police fired tear gas on stone-throwing Syrian refugees who were protesting at the lack of food and water at camps on the border with their conflict-ravaged homeland.

A Turkish official said demonstrations erupted at two of the 10 camps set up along the border which shelter about 40,000 Syrians who have fled the escalating violence at home.

“The clashes were some of the most violent of recent months,” the official said.

The unrest flared after Syrian rebel fighters seized a nearby border post after hours of fighting during the night, the third now held by the anti-regime militants.

“We have had no food for three days,” said a young Syrian boy standing outside the container city of Kilis.

The Kilis camp lies nearby the Oncupinar border crossing which faces the Al-Salama outpost on the Syrian side, the latest to be seized by the rebels.

“Kill us!” cried a Syrian woman carrying a baby in her lap, as dozens of gendarmerie forces and police were passing by. “Get rid of us,” she shouted.

Refugees at the Kilis camp said two demonstrators has been killed but the Turkish official said there was no confirmation of any deaths, although one Turkish policeman was injured.