DTN News - SYRIA UNREST: 'Turkey To Demand Assad Oust Brother From Military'....NSI News Source Info # 2101

DTN News - SYRIA UNREST: 'Turkey To Demand Assad Oust Brother From Military'....NSI News Source Info # 2101

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - June 18, 2011: A group of Syrians speak with Turkish soldiers as they wait inside Syria to enter Turkey near Turkish village of Guvecci in Hatay province, Turkey, Saturday, June 18, 2011. Syrian troops backed by tanks and firing heavy machine guns swept into a village near the Turkish border Saturday, cutting food supplies for nearly 2,000 refugees who have so far refused to leave their country. Many of those men, women and children will have no choice but to flee across the frontier if troops descend on them. (Photo - AP)

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DTN News - SYRIA UNREST: 'Turkey To Demand Assad Oust Brother From Military'....NSI News Source Info # 2100

DTN News - SYRIA UNREST: 'Turkey To Demand Assad Oust Brother From Military'....NSI News Source Info # 2100

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - June 18, 2011: Lebanese army soldiers, deploy on Saturday June 18, 2011, at a street where clashes broke out between Sunni and Alawite groups on Friday, after a demonstration of the anti-Syrian regime protesters in Tripoli, northern Lebanon. A senior member of a Lebanese political party allied with Syria and an off-duty soldier were killed Friday after gunmen opened fire and lobbed a grenade near hundreds of people holding an anti-Assad protest in northern Lebanon, a security official said in Beirut. (Photo - AP)

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DTN News - SYRIA UNREST: Angelina Jolie Meets Syrian Refugees In Turkey....NSI News Source Info # 2099

DTN News - SYRIA UNREST: Angelina Jolie Meets Syrian Refugees In Turkey....NSI News Source Info # 2099

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - June 18, 2011: Actress and UNHCR goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie has visited camps along Turkey's border with Syria, where she met refugees who have fled the country since the beginning of the unrest.

More than 9,000 civilians are currently living in the Altinozu camp, which is being managed by the Turkish Red Crescent.

Speaking during her trip, Ms Jolie praised the work of the Turkish authorities for welcoming the refugees, but said she was "disturbed" by the children's understanding of their situation.

The UN says that at least 1,100 people have died in Syria as the government has cracked down on demonstrations that began in March.

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DTN News - UNREST IN SYRIA: ‘Syrian Army Defectors Tell Of Rape, Indiscriminate, Murder’....NSI News Source Info # 2068

DTN News - UNREST IN SYRIA: ‘Syrian Army Defectors Tell Of Rape, Indiscriminate, Murder’....NSI News Source Info # 2068

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - June 12, 2011:

Syrian soldiers were told to fire indiscriminately at civilians and raped Syrian women in front of their husbands, reports emerged Sunday morning quoting army defectors who fled to Turkey.

Four soldiers told AFP of instances of rape and murder as Syrian President Bashar Assad‘s forces crack down on anti-regime demonstrations throughout the country forcing thousands of civilians to escape to Turkey.

One soldier said the “cleansing” in Rastan in Homs caused him to defect. “We were told that people were armed there. But when we arrived, we saw that they were ordinary civilians. We were ordered to shoot them,” he said.

“When we entered the houses, we opened fire on everyone, the young, the old… Women were raped in front of their husbands and children,” he said, predicting that there were some 700 deaths, although this has not been verified.

Another soldier, Khalaf, told AFP that in a town near the Turkish border, “a professional soldier pulled out his knife and stabbed a civilian in the head, for no reason.”

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DTN News - TURKISH DEFENSE NEWS: Turkish PM Focuses On Defense Industry In Poll Campaign....NSI News Source Info # 2065

DTN News - TURKISH DEFENSE NEWS: Turkish PM Focuses On Defense Industry In Poll Campaign....NSI News Source Info # 2065

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada / ANKARA, Turkey - June 11, 2011:

Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, is putting an unprecedented emphasis on the defense industry in its campaign for the June 12 elections. The party's promises focus on establishing and developing a domestic industry that comes near to being self-sufficient. PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says the capital city of Ankara will become the headquarters of the sector.

Visions for the defense industry have not played a key role in election campaigns by either a ruling or opposition party ahead of previous Turkish polls. But this year, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been holding up Turkey’s developing national defense industry as one of the pillars of a modern economy in the 2020s.

In the weeks leading up to the nationwide parliamentary election that will be held June 12, Erdoğan had made three major speeches on the national defense industry.

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