[PhillipHer]

Turkey sends arms to Syrian border | Alshahid Network

A convoy of about 30 military vehicles, including trucks loaded with missile batteries, set off from Turkey’s coastal town of Iskenderun in Hatay province, headed for the Syrian border 50 km away, TRT television footage showed.

The deployment comes days after the downing of a Turkish military jet by Syrian forces heightened the tensions between the two countries.

Turkey has said that it has no immediate plans to respond to the incident with military action.

But the Turkish prime minister warned Tuesday that he had ordered commanders along the country’s southern border to treat any Syrian military approach as a threat, escalating concerns that Turkey – along with the United States and its allies – could be drawn into a regional war.

Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoebi was quoted as telling Turkish news channel A Haber in a telephone interview Wednesday that his country did “not want a crisis between Turkey and Syria.”

Al-Zoebi said Turkish and Israeli fighter jets were mostly U.S.-made, which may have led the Syrian forces to mistake it for an Israeli jet.

[Qeiafib]

Attacking Turkey would be the last thing Syria would want to do right now. By "last thing," I don't mean "it's unlikely": I mean, it's the very last thing they would want to do. And Turkey isn't going to invade a neighbor over a downed plane, just to air their grievance over it.

My girlfriend happens to be about 300 km from where the plane was shot down (on the Turkish side, of course), and she says judging by the headlines, it seems people are more worried about it here than they are there.