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Turkey won’t remain silent over Syria crimes: Erdogan

Monday February 25, 2013 08:17:44 PM, IINA

Sharjah: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday vowed his country will not remain silent over Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s “crimes”, as Washington condemned a missile strike on Aleppo that left 58 dead.

“Every day a large number of innocent children and women fall dead in Syria,” Erdogan, a key backer of Syria’s opposition, said in a speech at a Sharjah forum.

 

“We will not remain silent on those committing crimes against their people... We will not remain silent on the brutal dictator in Syria,” Erdogan said at the opening session of the 2nd Sharjah Government Communications (GCF) Forum.

 

Turkey’s southern neighbor Syria has been locked in a 23-months-long conflict in which the United Nations estimates over 70,000 people have been killed.

Early in the revolt against Assad’s regime, Turkey broke ties with Damascus and led international calls for his ouster.

 

Turkey has since backed the uprising against Assad by offering shelter to defectors from Assad’s army and hosting opposition meetings.

 

Some 200,000 Syrian refugees have fled the conflict in their country for Turkey, many of them living in insalubrious camps.

 

On February 15, Assad’s government sent a letter to the United Nations blasting Turkey’s “destructive” role in the Syrian conflict.

Erdogan’s statement came as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, updated its death toll from a powerful missile attack on Friday on the northern city of Aleppo, saying it killed at least 58 people, among them 36 children.

 

Washington condemned on Saturday “in the strongest possible terms” Assad’s regime for the strike, which activists say was carried out using surface-to-surface missiles.
 

The army’s deadly missile strikes were “the latest demonstrations of the Syrian regime’s ruthlessness and its lack of compassion for the Syrian people it claims to represent”, said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.

 

Nuland repeated Washington’s call for Assad to step down. “The Assad regime has no legitimacy and remains in power only through brute force,” Nuland said.
 

She added: “The United States sees no indication that the brave Syrian people fighting against this aggression will accept these regime leaders, with the blood of so many Syrians on their hands, as part of a transition governing authority.”

 

The comments from Washington came after a statement from the main opposition Syrian National Coalition (SNC) announcing a boycott of talks with world powers.




 

 





 

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