土耳其和叙利亚
Bad blood bubbles
恶战到底
Relations between the two neighbours are getting worse than ever
两邻国之间的关系到达历史冰点
A dangerous spat
一场危险的争执
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，当叙利亚炮弹对准土耳其东南部小镇Akcakale进行一系列炮轰并杀害了其5名国民后，土耳其政府对部队下达命令以叙利亚为军事目标进行打击。炮火一直持续到周四，据报道一些叙利亚士兵在此次炮击中丧生，而两国这种针锋相对的形式有可能失控。土耳其一再呼吁联合国在叙利亚建立一个免战区来保护平民,言下之意,就是给试图*阿萨德的叙利亚政权的叛军分子一个避风港。而近期，两国之间不断升级的敌对事件，使得国外干预的可能性更高。就在《经济学人》付梓之际，双方似乎都不愿意引起更大规模的纷争之中。
