Turkey is deploying additional troops along the border with Syria as fighting between opposition and regime forces in Aleppo has intensified.
Syrian opposition rebels launched a wide-scale attack on regime strongholds late Thursday in the northern province of Aleppo, killing and wounding some 80 people, a monitoring group said.
On Thursday, Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said that he will not plunge the country into an "adventure" in Syria unless there is a direct threat to the country's national security. He noted that the direct threat would be imposed by the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), Assad forces or the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and underscored Turkey's readiness for any development in Syria such as an attack to its soils or a refugee inflow due to ongoing clashes.
Turkey regulated the rules of engagement regarding Syria accordingly for a cross-border operation against ISIS to give Turkish troops a freer hand to fire into Syria, which disintegrated after the outbreak of civil war in 2011
