Does anybody else see a strangeness in Turkiye being asked to take action in Syria but not getting any support in Nothern Iraq?

^^ That's just international politics.
Whats happening in Syria is nothing new. The baath party have done the same thing since its coming to power. No preparations are being made for either sanctions or military action by either the West, NATO or Turkey.
While Turkey was a developing country, major powers used the PKK to weaken Turkey and keep Turkey as a secondary player in the M/E. now that Turkey is becoming the economic, financial, industrial and military leader in this region, the Wests ability to lets say "hamstring" Turkey is diminishing rapidly and as Turkeys soft and hard power increases the states that formerly used the PKK to hold us in our place are finding it difficult to maintain such policies, but old habits die hard.

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Turkey seizes Syrian ship with weapons - PM Erdogan

Turkey has seized a Syrian-flagged ship loaded with weapons, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said.

He did not say where or when the vessel was stopped, but vowed to confiscate any arms shipments for Syria coming through Turkish waters or airspace.

Mr Erdogan has repeatedly criticised Syrian President Bashar al-Assad over his government's violent crackdown on street protesters.

Last week, Mr Erdogan said the era of oppressive dictators was over

Contacts cut off

"Turkey has arrested a ship flying the Syrian flag and carrying weapons," Mr Erdogan said in New York where he attended the UN General Assembly, Turkey's Anataolia news agency reports.

"If in the future arms shipments (to Syria) are made by air or land, we will stop and seize them," he added.

News of this latest incident marks a hardening in relations between two formerly friendly countries, the BBC's Matthew Well in New York reports.

Ankara has grown increasingly impatient with Damascus' refusal to discuss political reforms, our correspondent says.

Earlier this week, Mr Erdogan told reporters that Turkey no longer had any contacts with the Syrian leadership and warned of sanctions.

Ankara also hosted a conference of Syria's opposition groups earlier this month.

Foreign reporters are not being allowed in to Syria so news organisations are largely dependent on unverified amateur video and reports by rights groups.

According to the UN, more than 2,200 people have been killed in Syria since anti-government protests began more than five months ago.

The government says hundreds of its personnel have been killed.

The government insists that it has a political reform programme in place, but opposition leaders say there can be no free and fair elections while the ruling Baath party is in power.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15044314

Fully support Turkey getting nuclear weapons. It needs them to be the main man in the Middle East.

Hello everyone, just came back to quote from my post in this thread on Sept. 04:



And Turkey will get its hand dirty after all. Things seem impossible but when enough price is paid in blood, then the impossible becomes possible. In this case the price so far was just about 10,000 Sunni blood, but it will pale in comparison to what the price will be eventually. We are witnessing a true geopolitical shift in the region and the victims will be Alawi's and Christians of Syria, mostly, as their existence will be threatened in a sectarian civil war, just as it happened in case of Iraqi Sunni's and Christians. Overall Sunni's will come out ahead and Shia's will once again loose their brief 15 minutes of fame. It will be wiser for Shia and other minority groups in the region to accept reality and predominance of Sunni's and not fight back in revenge in a loosing battle. History, unfortunately is not on their side, any more.

Instead of siding with China or Russia or India, for Shia Iran, it will be better to forget about this futile power struggle with Sunni's and improve their relations with fellow Muslims.

Russia will be wiser to join in an expanded EU and all Muslims should be forever wary about Muslim-hating India. The real choice for Muslims will be to choose between China or the West, when and if a new cold war shapes up between these two sides. I am still betting on the West to win, but victory is not guaranteed at this point, unless this collection of geographically spread out nations get their act together and unite rather quickly and specially important is whether they can bring the Russian bear back in their camp.

Correction: Syrian christians may not suffer as much, if they sit on the fences and not overtly side with Assad regime and the Alawite security forces. At some point the christians should decide which side they are on and the sooner they decide the better it will be for them as a group.

Israel already has and develops such weapons.
For example Nimrod missle warhead:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod_(missile)