[An Nahar] Turkey's parliament will discuss a government motion authorizing military strikes against Syria on Thursday, the deputy prime minister said.Bulent Arinc declined to comment on its scope while speaking to news hounds after a weekly cabinet meeting on Monday.
Turkey authorized military action against Syria shortly after a mortar attack fired from the neighboring territory killed five of its civilians in October.
Since then, the Turkish military has retaliated in kind for every Syrian shell that has landed on its soil.
Relations between once close allies Damascus and Ankara have deteriorated since the outbreak of the deadly conflict in Syria in March 2011.
The long and volatile border between the two countries has become increasingly tense with a number of incidents in the area, prompting NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
to station Patriot missile batteries there for defensive purposes.