Erdogan Accuses Syrian Regime of Committing 'Atrocity'
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the Syrian regime of perpetrating an "atrocity" against anti-government demonstrators, the Anatolia news agency reported Friday.
"I talked to Mr. Assad (Syrian President Bashar al-Assad) four or five days ago. ... But they underestimate the situation," Erdogan told Anatolia.
"Unfortunately they do not behave humanely," Erdogan said.
He also said the brutal crackdown on protesters was "unacceptable" and leads to a “necessary” U.N. Security Council action.
"Upon all these we cannot insist on (defending) Syria," Anatolia quoted him as saying.
Erdogan has piled pressure on Assad, a personal friend, to initiate reform but stopped short of calling for his departure.
Erdogan reiterated that his country would keep the doors open for refugee waves from Syria, but asked, "How far this will continue?" Anatolia reported.
The number of Syrians who have fled to Turkey fearing bloodshed in their country increased to 2,500 on Thursday, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.
Another 495 more refugees arrived in Karbeyaz town in the border province of Hatay later Thursday, Anatolia reported.
The arrivals have sharply increased since Tuesday, with most refugees fleeing the flashpoint town of Jisr al-Shughur, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the Turkish border, where tensions have flared amid accusations by Damascus that protesters killed 120 policemen.
More than 1,100 civilians have been killed and at least 10,000 arrested in a brutal crackdown on almost daily anti-regime demonstrations in Syria since March 15, rights organizations say.
10 June 2011, 12:06
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it's only time b4 we see turkish forces in syria ,they will enter syria like the syrian entered lebanon in 1976,,it is in full coordination with nato,and the prize will be:the acceptance of turkey in european community.
n.b. a modified lybian style ,AMERICAN PLANNING.
10 June 2011, 15:28
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The irony of this article is that Erdogan is calling the death of about 1,500 demonstrators in Syria as an atrocity, while the death of a million and a half Armenians as nothing but "deportation" from Turkey.
10 June 2011, 15:44
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I hope that Turkey enters Syria to save our Syrian brothers and sisters from the Assad regime. Inshallah a more humane, democratic, modern and friendly Syria to the M14 cause. I foresee a new democratic Syria that is STRONGLY allied with M14. The righteous always triumph at the end (inshalla).
10 June 2011, 16:46
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But of course John is correct Turkey calls the Armenian genocide a deportation and that's who the Syrian regime should have the right to "deport", torture and murder thousands of Syrians today and Lebanese before that how can anyone with a right mind disagree with such argument. I wonder what Kardashian sisters have to say about that.
10 June 2011, 23:59
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John, so denying murders others committed is like committing murders and then denying them.
