‘Arms taken to Syria through Turkey’

The move has raised speculations that weapons are being provided to armed groups in Syria through Turkey.

Refik Eryilmaz, a member of Turkey’s main opposition party “the Republican People’s Party”, said that the weapons have been similar to those used in Libya clashes.

Eryilmaz criticized the Turkish government’s policies towards Syria, noting that Turkey is being pushed to a war with Syria.

The lawmaker said that any military action against Syria will trigger a domino effect in the Middle East and will fuel tensions in the region.

The lawmaker’s warning against any military approach towards Syria comes as many senior politicians in Turkey have repeatedly warned that any foreign intervention in Syria will have “grave consequences.”

Eryilmaz said setting up camps in southern Turkey to host tens of thousands of Syrian refugees is part of a plan being pursued under pressure from the US and Israel to create a buffer zone along the Syria border to facilitate a military action against the crisis-hit country.

“They want the buffer zone because they want to launch an intervention against Syria since the UN has not made any decision to do so, they want to use the Syrian refugees as a pretext to say there is a humanitarian tragedy to create the buffer zone,” Eryilmaz told Press TV on phone.

Earlier this week, a lawmaker from Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party said in a news conference that Turkey has spent USD 150 million on Syrian refugees.

It still remains to be seen if Turkey’s policies towards Syria will help alleviate the pain of the Syrian people or will lead to more violence in that country by taking measures that many observers believe will only strengthen armed groups in Syria.

MGH/DB/MA

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