As my colleagues Tim Arango, Sebnem Arsu and Anne Barnard report, the conflict in Syria spilled over its border with Turkey again on Thursday, as the Turkish military struck Syrian positions in retaliation for cross-border shelling that killed five Turkish civilians a day earlier.
After Turkey’s Parliament voted to authorize further military action against Syria, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that another Syrian shell had landed in Turkish territory, the newspaper Today’s Zaman reported. Despite assuring reporters that his government “could never be interested in something like starting a war,” as he stood next to Iran’s visiting vice president, Mr. Erdogan added: “The Turkish Republic is a state capable of defending its citizens and borders. Nobody should try and test our determination on this subject.”
Late Thursday, thousands of antiwar protesters marched to Taksim Square in the center of Istanbul. The blogger Serhatcan Yurdam documented the protest using Instagram, and curated a collection of photographs uploaded to Twitter by observers and participants in the march...
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/protesters-march-against-war-in-istanbul-as-tension-with-syria-escalates/