Erdogan says testing Turkey 'a fatal mistake'

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that testing Turkey's capacity for deterrence would be "a fatal mistake", in a warning to Damascus in the wake of Syrian shelling of a Turkish town that killed five people.

Striking a belligerent tone in a speech to a crowd in Istanbul, Erdogan said: "We are not interested in war, but we're not far from it either. This nation has come to where it is today having gone through intercontinental wars." (Reuters)