Again on the same day, a news report entitled "Forensic medicine establishment proves that al-Assad has used chemical weapons" was published by Turkish newspaper Star:
It has been definitely determined that [Syrian President Bashar] Al-Asad has used chemical weapons against his own people. The Public Health Institute and the Ankara Forensic Medicine Establishment have found the substance "Ricin", which in the world is found only in Iran, China, and Russia, in 13 wounded individuals coming from Syria. [...] It is stated that Prime Minister [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan will place the dossier before [US President Barack] Obama on his US visit [on May 16] . The affair emerged when 13 wounded Syrian oppositionists were brought on 29 April from Syria to the Reyhanli State Hospital. [21]
All this evokes the war propaganda back in February 1998, when the Bill Clinton administration made an unsuccessful attempt to instigate a war with Iraq. According to an AFP report:
Turkish authorities have sent 60,000 gas masks to its southeast regions bordering Iraq to protect civilians from possible chemical and biological attacks by Iraqi forces, [Turkish] dailies Sabah and Yeni Yuzyil said Friday. The masks, sent by civil defence chiefs, are destined for civil servants working in the region bordering Iraq [...] . Southeast Turkey borders Iraq and the region is thought to be in a potentially dangerous position in case Iraq decides to use the chemical and biological weapons it is suspected of having. [22]
It is worth also mentioning two allegations made against Turkish Armed Forces' use of chemical weapons in the past:
In August 2011, five members of parliament from Germany's Die Linke party held a press conference to condemn the appointment of the current head of Turkish Armed Forces Necdet Ozel:
When [Necdet] Ozel was the General Commander of the Gendarmerie, he was not only responsible for the death, torture and violence in the Kurdish region [of Turkey] . In 1999, he ordered the use of chemical weapons against Kurdish guerrillas [near the Ballikaya Village in Silopi]. [23]
In October 2011, two months after Necdet Ozel's appointment, 37 Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) guerrillas were killed in the Kazan Valley of the Hakkari province during an operation by the Turkish Armed Forces. The following month, a European delegation visited the Kazan Valley to investigate the allegations of chemical weapons use during this operation. [24]
As the earlier quote from Turkish newspaper Star shows, the Reyhanli State Hospital near Turkey's border with Syria was at the forefront of the chemical weapons propaganda over the April 29 incident. Two days after this press report, the same hospital was inundated with the victims of a far more devastating false-flag operation.
OFFICIAL REACTIONS TO THE REYHANLI BOMBING ATTACKS
On May 11, international media agencies reported that twin car bombs
have killed at least 43 people and injured at least 100 in the Turkish
town of Reyhanli, near the Syrian border. [25] Shortly after the
bombing attacks, Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc
pointed the finger at Syria:
"Our thoughts are that their Mukhabarat [Syria's intelligence agency] and armed organisations are the usual suspects in planning and the carrying out of such devilish plans." [25]
Hours after the Reyhanli bombing attacks, the head of global military alliance NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen issued a press release:
I express full solidarity with the people and the authorities of our Ally Turkey. [26]
The following day, Turkey's Interior Minister Muammer Guler held a press conference:
For the time being there is no evidence suggesting that al-Qaida was involved. [27]
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