If confirmed, this is pretty big. It would mean that nations in the region have moved past religious bickering to focus on security issues together in a way never seen before.

If confirmed it would mean Iran has more to worry about as well, as that gives the Israelis at least the possibility of access to bases right on their border...

Russia Today is a really "hit or miss" source, and the idea of Turkey allowing Israel to use its bases for an attack on Syria very much strikes me as a "miss."

Why would Turkey do this? For that matter why would Israel? What's the point, what, do you fly up to Turkey, stop, get some good coffee to bring home to your mom, and lob missiles at Syria on your way back? It doesn't make an ounce of sense for either nation to do this.

Unless this comes out as being real, from a more credible source, i'm going to chalk this one up as another conspiracy theory someone fished up from the souk.

That either would do this is not surprising.

What does not make sense is why Israel would have to use a Turkish base. Israel is well capable of hitting Syria from its own airspace.

I'm not surprised by Israel's move against Syria (I don't think it's a bright decision on their part, but Israel always seems a nation eager to dig the hole a little deeper, so no surprise.) I wouldn't be surprised by Turkey making a move on its own against Syria either - though I would have greater expectation that they go after this or that group of asshole insurgents, since those are the guys who occasionally toss artillery into Turkey.

But the idea of Israel launching an attack from Turkey is just... really dumb. If there's a grain of truth here, and it's not just wholesale fabrication... then it's probably Turkey allowing Israeli jets to use its airspace for the turnaround flight back to Israel. I still think that might be unlikely - after all, plenty of international space due west - but it's certainly way more likely than the idea the story proposes.

this report makes no sense.

And they have a penchant for conspiracy theories.

Israel's path of least resistance to Syria is not from Turkey

For example in the 1967 Six Day War, the Israeli Air force, flew out over the Mediterranean Sea, refuel in the air and then flew over Libya and attacked Egyptian Air bases from the West (Libya). At first the Egyptian Air Force thought they had been attacked by the US Sixth Fleet but came to see how the Israelis did the attack.

Thus the attack MAY have come from Turkey but by Israel first flying over Turkey to hide the direction of the attack. I can see the Israeli Air Force flying around Cyprus and then returning to attack Syria. The Turkish Air Force would have known of the attack, for they would have seen it on their Radars, but then NOT inform Ankara for they did NOT want the elected Turkish Government to know of the attack.

Remember, in many ways you have a dispute between the Turkish Military and the Elected Turkish Government and those two are NOT talking to each other. To use an Air Base would require some sort of positive action on the part of Turkey, something the Military can not give, and the elected official will not give. , Thus I suspect it is more an attack FROM TURKEY then from a Turkish Air Base. An attack from Turkey does NOT need Turkish permission, all it needs is a refusal on part of the Turkish Air Force to stop such an attack. That is something the Turkish Military can do and I suspect has done if this report is true.

But we have to wait form other confirmation.

There was that story about Israel submarine yesterday on RT...

Another Israeli false flag attempt. Recently reported as sub strike, also. Israel would love to bring in Turkey, US, anybody.

Also, a poke in the eye to Erdogan.

That statement is there to inflame and cause blowback for Turkey. Turkey's people are mostly Muslim, but Turkey isn't a "Muslim State", IOW, it is not under religious rule. That statement should have never been in a responsible news report.

It is not the statement that would "inflame and cause blowback for Turkey," but the complicity with Israel in attacking another predominantly Muslim state (if true).