[DManA]

Are they nuts? Turkey backed by NATO takes Syria out in about 10 minutes.

[tsowellfan]

Bashar al-Assad must be trying to get the nation to rally around him.

[SunkenCiv]

Even without NATO’s backing, Turkey’s army and airforce would smash the Syrian army in under a week. It would be not be bloodless on the Turkish side, either, but Turkey has armed forces to the tune of 600,000 (obviously not all combat infantry, but it’s the second largest army in Europe, after Russia’s). And Syria’s armed forces would start to come apart at the sectarian seams when the shooting started.

[Tallguy]

Are they nuts? Turkey backed by NATO takes Syria out in about 10 minutes.

Turkey's ability to project power more than a few miles beyond its own borders is pretty limited.

[mamelukesabre]

Turkey is hated by:

kurds
iranians
russians
the balkan states
eastern europe
armenians and other states in the caucasus region.

Syria would get plenty of help.

[justa-hairyape]

Not exactly. Turkey has no Chemical or Biological WMD. They have signed onto the nonproliferation treaty. Syria has not signed onto the treaty and they possess a large stockpile of Chemical WMD. And it is possibly that their biological capability was enhanced with Saddams stockpile. Syria can take out Turkey by attacking its civilians. Turkey has no defense from that and can only retaliate by having the US use its nukes that are stored in Turkey for NATO’s defense. Now can you imagine how difficult it would be to get the green light to retaliate with those nukes ?

[kronos77]

Talking in the name of Balkan countries (Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece) we would go against Turkey in no time. We just need a reason to get them once and for all.
And as far as I see, Israelis would too.