Bad blood bubbles

惡戰(zhàn)到底

Relations between the two neighbours are getting worse than ever

兩鄰國之間的關(guān)系到達(dá)歷史冰點

A dangerous spat

一場危險的爭執(zhí)

After a series of mortar bombs fired from Syria landed in the south-eastern Turkish town of Akcakale, killing five people on October 3rd, Turkey’s government ordered its forces to fire on Syrian military targets. The Turkish shelling, which continued into Thursday, reportedly killed several Syrian soldiers, raising the spectre of a tit-for-tat that could get out of hand. Turkey has repeatedly called on the UN to impose a buffer zone in Syria to protect civilians and, by implication, to give rebels trying to overthrow the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad a haven. This latest escalation of hostilities between the two neighbours makes the prospect of a wider intervention a notch likelier. But as The Economist went to press, both sides seemed loth to let the spat slide into a bigger punch-up straight away.

10月3日，當(dāng)敘利亞炮彈對準(zhǔn)土耳其東南部小鎮(zhèn)Akcakale進(jìn)行一系列炮轟并殺害了其5名國民后，土耳其政府對部隊下達(dá)命令以敘利亞為軍事目標(biāo)進(jìn)行打擊。炮火一直持續(xù)到周四，據(jù)報道一些敘利亞士兵在此次炮擊中喪生，而兩國這種針鋒相對的形式有可能失控。土耳其一再呼吁聯(lián)合國在敘利亞建立一個免戰(zhàn)區(qū)來保護平民,言下之意,就是給試圖*阿薩德的敘利亞政權(quán)的叛軍分子一個避風(fēng)港。而近期，兩國之間不斷升級的敵對事件，使得國外干預(yù)的可能性更高。就在《經(jīng)濟學(xué)人》付梓之際，雙方似乎都不愿意引起更大規(guī)模的紛爭之中。