Turkey is the front man for a larger conspiracy. Motive for Turkey is ticket into the EU (as bad an idea as it is). Part of the NWO.
Purpose is to eliminate national sovereignty piece by piece and precedence has been established and entrenched for a future attack against the United States. Who will be the winner? Muzzies? China? The UN? Agenda 21?
Drill and let the Muzzies destroy each other.
Nations that can resist internal subversives may become allies to fight the NWO. They are the non-socialist and converting to capitalism states and states stepping away from their advances towards socialism after seeing the light.
Staying completely out of it seldom works out well. Somebody always wins, and the empire that results will be stronger because of added population and resources. This is why a classic precept of strategic thought is to support* the weak against the strong, preferably the lesser of two evils. And Alawites are considered heretics - and therefore even more subhuman than non-Muslims - by Shiites** and Sunnis alike.
* This support doesn't have to take the form of direct military intervention - US financial and military aid for the South East Asian countries during the Vietnam War era prevented those countries from being similarly overrun by Chinese- and Soviet-backed (with arms, money and training) Communist insurgencies.
** If Assad is a heretic, why are Shiite regimes supporting him? Because the alternative is a Sunni-ruled Syrian regime - a real danger to Shiite states, considering that the vast majority of Muslim states in the region are Sunni-ruled. Shiites fear Sunnis because Sunnis have this habit of slaughtering or otherwise persecuting religious minorities.